Ficus repens growing on the Bermuda Botanical Gardens shop

Nawitka, on July 16, 2008, said:

I've starting picking through mine too ... before they take away the "this photos is selected for Google Earth" too and I can't tell anymore. It's extremely disheartening. I think I will lose over 100. It takes hours to find them all and then to reupload and start from zero ... it's too sad. :-{

kamalyn, on July 16, 2008, said:

I know. And so frustrating, because 640 x480 is a typical photo size setting!!! and one that would have been frequently used by many amateur photographers before the camera sensors got better. So why can't they use that? For some, I took the shots at 640 x 480 (back in the days of my ancient Gateway that probably took 10 minutes to download even that size!) But YIKES - 100 lost? At least I don't have too many at all - I think only 8, and they aren't the well known images, like Matthew's Burj Dubai at night, or all of those that were posted to the Forum. But for all of us: they're our early images, so they've got some sentimental value, and they have the views they'll never get now. LOL, maybe I'll re-upload this one and be like Taiwan Google Earth: just sit there and refresh to get my views back. Of course if everyone who's been de-selected does that, the site will go into another tailspin like it did back then.

But there are so many of the signature images that fall into the category, I keep thinking they'll have to rescind, so I'll wait to re-upload.

Nawitka, on July 16, 2008, said:

123 and counting Sob!

kamalyn, on July 17, 2008, said:

Nawitka - hopefully good news! (except for the hours you've spent finding all of the 'deselected' ones'.) Check Edouardo's Forum post to the Q&S thread today, which says as long as one dim. is over 500 pixels, the images stay.