PANORAMIO is CLOSED

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hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 12:03:02 AM10/5/16
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In their infinite wisdom, arrogance and not being able to communicate in a normal manner Google is under the impression that what they offer on Google Maps is sufficient to compete with other photo sites and Panoramio. This announcement is made in a single line on your photo page as thank you for all the money you generated for Google. 
I wish you all a nice scrolling until infinity to reach the last photo on your profile.

For me, I will help those who really need help with a transition to GM, but it´s all in the link above, I will divert all questions about not being able to find photos or about statistics to this thread.
In the mean time I have better things to do, 

I don´t know how long this forum will be open, so I wish you all the best, thank you all for your support and for the nice conversations and discussions we had in the past, for me, nine years. Godspeed. 

Stuart Smith

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Oct 5, 2016, 1:01:10 AM10/5/16
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I also found it unbelievable that a company the size of Google was never able to be contactable regarding Panoramio.

As the site has so many loyal followers that really appreciate its benefits and community, why can't Google sell it or maintain it even with a membership fee (reasonable level)? The coexistence with GE has helped me on so many travels to find places of beauty and interest. Maps is a poor substitute!

I add my sadness at its demise.

Matthew Walters

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Oct 5, 2016, 1:15:38 AM10/5/16
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Thanks Herman. Sadly Google seems to be made up of unimaginative cowards.

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 3:27:44 AM10/5/16
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NEW In the Panoramio settings (cogwheel right of your avatar) you can break the link between Panoramio and Google+, your photos will not be transferred to GM then.


Geosergio

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Oct 5, 2016, 3:28:45 AM10/5/16
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What is this bad new this morning? Again they say that Panoramio is closing! Why? I have more than 100.000 photos here! I spent years here on Panoramio to upload my photos, to share the world and culture!
Is there anything we can do to save Panoramio? In 2014 we won a petition to save it! Does it mean anything? Where is democracy in this world?
Sorry for my bad written trend but I am so angry! This morning I got so angry when I read this again!

Christos Theodorou

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Oct 5, 2016, 4:57:54 AM10/5/16
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Trying Maps last month, all Panoramio photos are transferred automatically to the new site, if they are accepted in GE. I can't see my photos not accepted for any reason. That means, I suppose, photos with flowers, graffiti, macro will not be transferred to Maps.

I really hate scrolling ... to the eternity, but I prefer to keep my work alive.

Timberwolf Studios

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Oct 5, 2016, 4:59:03 AM10/5/16
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laurence_cox

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Oct 5, 2016, 5:16:40 AM10/5/16
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Let's all start by agreeing to boycott their 'Local Guides program'. We don't upload photos just to provide links to businesses, which is what they seem to think we are going to do (if business owners want to upload pictures showing off their businesses, they are quite entitled to do so, but it wasn't what Panoramio was set up for).

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 5:31:10 AM10/5/16
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You can link to POI´s, which would be the same as the snap to function in Panoramio. POI´s are not necessarily businesses but can be other places like churches, musea, fountains etc. It´would be the users choice to link to businesses. For the rest you can of course link your flower photos to flower shop etc. The system GM uses is as vulnerable as Panoramio once was, Google still has no idea about human nature and the way some people will corrupt the system given the chance. 

For the rest I don´t think any action to boycot the guides program will impress Google. As they said when people wanted to leave Panoramio, we will be sad to se you go, but we can not stop you. again, they are not interested in the people behind the computer. 

laurence_cox

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Oct 5, 2016, 5:38:18 AM10/5/16
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If you want to carry on sharing these, you could try creating themed albums on Google+. This is one that I made on the subject of Nature:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOajNSn1GphjsaslhHCJ93NpqL6CtKdtijIyMx3
Of course these will count towards your Google+ quota, while transferred photos do not.

laurence_cox

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Oct 5, 2016, 5:48:25 AM10/5/16
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I agree with you that Google are too big to care about the little people now. Whatever happened to 'Don't be evil'? Sometimes you just have to accept that you have lost and have nothing to do with their replacement. For me, Panoramio was mainly about the groups of like-minded people, and this is gone forever with GM.

bdeh

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Oct 5, 2016, 6:28:20 AM10/5/16
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If all Panoramio users delete all their photo's, Google map will be less interesting.

Op woensdag 5 oktober 2016 06:03:02 UTC+2 schreef hvbemmel:

PavolG

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:05:13 AM10/5/16
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Few weeks ago, Google sent me a huge "Thank You" email for all my contributions. I have millions of views, some photos with more than 100 000 views, achieved Level 5 local guide badge, I've reported tons of errors in maps and now? They're sayin me goodbye. We don't need you anymore, because we are accepting only photos of restaurants now... And uploaded by context menu for the exact POI.


Dňa streda, 5. októbra 2016 6:03:02 UTC+2 hvbemmel napísal(-a):

Amelia Royan

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:13:14 AM10/5/16
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I am almost totally computer literate.  Do you advise me to sign up for G+, then save  all my photos in the zip file?   I'm not good at following instructions and have a fear of losing everything!

I  have to say that, even though it has been on the cards for some time now, I feel very sad, and very disappointed  with Google, and the way they have treated this site.

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:42:34 AM10/5/16
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Amelia, do you have your photos on your computer / hard drive ? if yes, then forget about the zipfile it will not bring you more as what you have. The zipfile is only for if you do not have a copy of your photos anymore.

If you want to have your photos transferred to photos.google.com and want to go in with Google Maps, then you have to connect to G+. I can not advise you there. you will have to decide what you want. 

mook88

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:44:59 AM10/5/16
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I've been hoping that this day would never come, but sadly, here it is. So now I would like to take this opportunity to thank the moderators for all of their hard work over the years. It has been very much appreciated!

Vietoves.Lt

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:45:19 AM10/5/16
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Hello,

it is very sad, that Panoramio will be not available for people shortly. But here are few questions, we all need to know.

1. We are still able to upload photos to Panoramio. They will be reviewed and approved for Google Maps? What is final date, then reviewers will complete own work?
2. Maybe anyone know, if it is (will be) possible upload batch geotagged photos to Google Maps like now to Panoramio?

Thank You.

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:48:33 AM10/5/16
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Pavol, The thank you and level 5 is for the photos you already have in Google Maps. You get no credits (yet) for Panoramio photos. Look for "your contributions"- photos under the three horizontal lines in the top left corner on GM. Ther you will find all your photos. those wit number on it are the photos you have in GM already.   

Asinus99

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среда, 5 октября 2016 г., 14:45:19 UTC+3 пользователь Vietoves.Lt написал:

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:58:29 AM10/5/16
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1. The photos will go to GM when you have a connection to G+ There the photos will be reviewed anyway so I guess the review will go on if not in Panoramio then in GM
2. You only can upload photos in GM when you go to a POI and click it. In the left pane the POI will appear and you will have to look for "add a photo" there (under a photo which says xx photos). The you can upload as many photos as you like.  

Draken

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Oct 5, 2016, 8:09:49 AM10/5/16
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Has anyone found out how to remove all the photo content? If I delete my photos from Panoramio will they also disappear from the Local contributors abortion of nature or do I have to make it directly on Google Maps? If so, how?

My photo contribution to Google is over for good. Thank you

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 9:06:26 AM10/5/16
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If you do it before november 4 you can delete your Panoramio account in the settings. As there was no transition to photos yet, that should do the trick. 
You also can remove the connection to G+ in the settings which also will prevent the transition (you will have to make sure there is no link as you had a link there but due to a bug we were thrown out of G+ , but not entirely)..then only Panoramio will remain and you can remove your photos/delete your account up to november 2017, after that Panoramio will not be reachable any more and photos will be transferred to Google photos.  

Draken

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Oct 5, 2016, 9:22:25 AM10/5/16
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Thank you Herman. I knew you would have the right answer. It is a pity we cannot reach the great bulk of Panoramio users and make them aware of this option. I am pretty sure a vast majority of them  would delete their accounts and photos since they would no longer want to contribute with this ugly-faced Leviathan. I will probably now remove the connection to G+, after that considered me gone.

Nick Weall

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Oct 5, 2016, 9:29:20 AM10/5/16
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Goodbye Draken

Thanks for all your hard work over the years.

hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 9:42:00 AM10/5/16
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Well, you have my address.
It was great living this adventure with you and the others, Knowing you all was worth te efforts and this is something Google can not ever take away from us. I doubt that they have the EQ to even fathom what Panoramio has meant for many of us and what they miss with their head in the mist of ones and zeros. Specially the moderators have lived through a lot of things and we always came out better. In this spirit I´m thankful to Draken, Matthew, Daniella, Tomas and all the others I consider being my friends and that goes far beyond Panoramio. I consider this a Goodbye, not a farewell.

digitography

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Oct 5, 2016, 9:48:12 AM10/5/16
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I have tried to back up my photographs using the method they prescribe, but there is no link in settings for for "Data Liberation" and I know my original account was a panoramio account.
I have no idea WTF google think they are achieving, other than pissing people off. Maybe they think they can get some suckers to pay them for putting photographs on GMs?
I have looked at the GMs option of uploading photographs and cannot figure out how to make it work, and if you make a contribution on G+ you can only upload photographs 1 at a time.
Thankfully all of my photographs are backed up, however many of them were geo located manually, so many hours I will never get back.


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Stephen SteveT

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Oct 5, 2016, 10:14:41 AM10/5/16
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Dear Herman, Matthew, Draken and others

I'm gob smacked. I nearly posted this week that we needed the defibrillator to try and get a pulse back into Panoramio. 

I have spent Years on this project, my first photo upload back in Feb 2007 and what a waste of effort I now feel.  I will pull all my 19,243 photos from Google along with the 32,000,000  views they've had, with immediate effect. 

I take my hat off to you guys Herman, Matthew, Draken and others that have had to put up with me over the years, you clearly have the patience of saints.

Panoramio was great, had it's problems but was truly great and could have been made outstanding with a little resolve from Google.

I wish to thank the Founders of Panoramio, Eduardo and Colleagues for a such great idea it was a shame they were unable to continue.
 
Also a big thank you to Pierre Dablon for his Stats Program PhotosheetPano, along with others who also wrote complimentary software. 

Panoramio is going to be a big miss in my life and wish all who have contributed well and all the best for the future.

Cheers from Geordieland and Farewell

Stephen (SteveT, Stephen SteveT)

PS. Whats the safest way to remove all photos from Panoramio / Google Maps / Google Earth ?

Aristaeus63

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Oct 5, 2016, 10:28:48 AM10/5/16
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It makes you wonder if they're going to end Google Earth next. I don't think photo's uploaded to Google Maps end up on Google Earth. The only new photo contributions to GE were on the android version via Panoramio.


hvbemmel

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Oct 5, 2016, 10:31:51 AM10/5/16
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Hi Steve,

Thx for your kind words.
To your question: The easiest way is to delete your Panoramio account in the Panoramio settings, this only affects Panoramio and also removes your photos from GM and GE (those two can take some time) 


On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 16:14:41 UTC+2, SteveT wrote:
Dear Herman, Matthew, Draken and others

I'm gob smacked. I nearly posted this week that we needed the defibrillator to try and get a pulse back into Panoramio. 

I have spent Years on this project, my first photo upload back in Jan 2008 and what a waste of effort I now feel.  I will pull all my 19,243 photos from Google along with the 32,000,000  views they've had, with immediate effect. 

Daniela Brocca

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Oct 5, 2016, 10:35:20 AM10/5/16
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I'm so sad, Hermann, a could cry all the time.Almost ten years of my life and thousands of hours gone. What is left is that I met hundreds of peeople , many of them became friends, even some I never met in person.  We can meet again in Ipernity,where some of us went already some times ago.Is not the same , I know, but at last we will not lose everything.We can stay in touch.

Please help  the people that ask how to go to Maps, for me is difficult. I will have to try too.


Roger-11

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Hello,Steve.

 I
'm like you after the publication of the message Panoramio top, I came across the cu
(behind) .
After all
the effort that one has done more petitions made, google to play dead and took the opportunity to do that médiathéquephoto on Google Earth, as the photos put on this site for his well there lomtemps and we do not suprimés with more than 134 million photos that they were taken by amateur photographer us cheaply, this is where the bottom lies I'm really disappointed because it was a good way to give an opinion on the photo and communicate together.
My
Greeting France, Roger. See Here: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/134028115

© Tom Cooper

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Oct 5, 2016, 11:53:48 AM10/5/16
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Aristaeus63,

Google has some legal problems with Google Earth.  Depending on how that goes, they may be forced to close Google Earth. :(

SteveT

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Thanx Herman, thought I should say thanx again before doing as you say because probably not able to post afterwards. 

Auf Wiedersehen

© Tom Cooper

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Oct 5, 2016, 12:20:26 PM10/5/16
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I will add my thanks to you, Herman, Daniela, and all of the other moderators.  It was a priveledge to meet and have breakfast with you at the 2011 Google Geo User's summit.  The world is a small place.  Perhaps our paths will cross again some day.

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Oct 5, 2016, 12:21:22 PM10/5/16
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Yeah, that's a "nice" early Christmas present!

All useful information included in our 
- conversation comments, 
- descriptions, 
- tags, 
- links to other resources from comments and desription, 
- favourite photographers and photos, 
- links to our galleries, photos and tags based selections from other web pages, 
- apps using API, 
- official and user organised contests and their results, 
- perhaps also this forum... 
...everything's going to die and disappear, all in vain. 

Thank you Google.
Thank you for the good time I enjoyed discovering the locations on Maps and Google Earth when planning, recalling or simply dreaming about the trips to remote locations.
Thank for letting me know some new virtual and also the real friends.
Thank for an education and a tutoring in the landscape photography I've got through this experience and with a help of the new friends.
Thank for all the thrill, learning curve and Panoramio experience from "Wow! My photos are on Google Earth!" through the discovery of the great photos in Panoramio Galleries and the photo games and competitions in the forum... to becoming a moderator helping others.
Thank for the meetings, either official ones organised by Google or informal ones we organise ourselves.
Big thanks to Eduardo and all other co-founders to make it all possible.

I cannot thank you Google for the way you handle Panoramio in last 3 years and how you finally resolve the "migration".
Although I read between the lines of the last (previous) official announcement by James Therrien that there will not be much effort to migrate all of our content and give us better, more flexible, more social, "brighter and more shining" tool to share our photos on maps... and as I observed "advancing" development of Maps - Your Contribution, Google Photos and Local Guides programme... despite all of that I remained loyal contributor to Panoramio, with a false hope in a miracle. It did not happened.

I have to take a break and cool off period to decide, if I leave with all my photos (read: if I should delete them all), or if it is better for me and my friends to keep them buried somewhere in Photos gallery.

Perhaps... it is also our fault that the popularity of Panoramio declined recently. Perhaps we shall interact and promote more this service, which used to be the breaking one. But most of all, we are the hobbyists and not the marketers. And it's hard to promote the service, which is for three years broken and without dedicated admins.

Perhaps I shall revive my account on ipernity or Flickr (or other photo sharing site), but there is no service which provide such a excellent combination of maps and photos for me. Hard decision. 

So hello and good bye Daniela, Herman, Draken, Matthew, Alex, Ihor, Andre, Alexandru, Mimi, Roar, Nick, Larry, Agneta, Amelia, Gudrun, Herb, Rob, David, JBM and many others (to name a few only...). Hope to see and meet you not only on the map.



laurence_cox

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Oct 5, 2016, 1:31:59 PM10/5/16
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Actually Google is pretty good at corrupting without anyone's help. Take a look at this example from my photos:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/131581747

As you can see it is a church interior and there is no POI, because Google thought it unnecessary to provide one for this church in Trier.

Now look on Google maps:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/contrib/112118098670910242746/photos/@49.756249,6.64071,9z/data=!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1

and you will see that it has been allocated to:

Suksabai Thaimassage Trier
Porta-Nigra-Platz 4, 54292 Trier, Germany

which incidentally, is a totally different location in Trier. I could understand it if they had chosen the nearest POI.

On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:31:10 UTC+1, hvbemmel wrote:
You can link to POI´s, which would be the same as the snap to function in Panoramio. POI´s are not necessarily businesses but can be other places like churches, musea, fountains etc. It´would be the users choice to link to businesses. For the rest you can of course link your flower photos to flower shop etc. The system GM uses is as vulnerable as Panoramio once was, Google still has no idea about human nature and the way some people will corrupt the system given the chance.

Aristaeus63

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Oct 5, 2016, 1:44:49 PM10/5/16
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This one of mine, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/132688571 , is from Assateugue Island National Seashore. On google maps it is designated as taken in the "North Atlantic". Unless they greatly improve google maps, there's not much point in posting.

millotaurus1

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Oct 5, 2016, 2:09:00 PM10/5/16
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In fact, I f...ck them all....

SteveT

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Oct 5, 2016, 2:13:05 PM10/5/16
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Looks as though I'm still able to post after death. Panoramio account deleted, now empty photos on Google Earth but still here in spirit.

Stephen 

Draken

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Oct 5, 2016, 4:03:47 PM10/5/16
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However, if I hover my mouse over your name here there is no link to your account/profile. So far you can participate in the forum and I suppose it is so because the Google groups and the Panoramio accounts have never completely integrated.

c0l0gne1

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Oct 5, 2016, 4:51:06 PM10/5/16
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I feel with you who have been hoping against hope for a positive outcome though I must say I'm not surprised at the way Google has (mis)handled this. I'm glad I deleted most of my photos two years ago so that I had only 20 photos left to delete today. My former Picasa albums will follow.
As I said to Herman in the German forum- why don't you make Ip your first home, the user interaction is as good as it used to be on Panoramio and the map is quite good actually. Also, not having to think about GE acceptance is liberating;-)
Hope to see you there, Tom! Btw- there are memberships to be won: http://www.ipernity.com/group/winclub

vovik1zt

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Oct 5, 2016, 5:15:04 PM10/5/16
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I have a little more than 2,000 photos in Panorama, do not understand why closing a cool project. It's like a social network of photographers, travelers, etc. where you can see the properties of a photo, a camera and how to make (even learn from the pros just for data), these data are not available anywhere else - simply nowhere ... I'm your account tied to G + is still a couple of years ago, when only just begun the nix.
In such changes only large Cons:
1) Less data about the photo,
2) Less binding to the countryside, Mr. CI and local experts photo can bind only to an existing object! That is, if the object is not in GMaps, the picture snaps to the ground just within the area, the region, rather than to a monument such as you sfotkali. You can create an object, but only on a path to GM (and that if it will be moderated when the hour, and when a month!), And if it is a rural road in the field, where a beautiful view like or lake without a name, the photo will bind only to the district center, and the area can be a few hundred km2 ...
3) Less photo statistics,
4) Less huskies,
5) Negative comments (after all, most want to know more about your photo, how they appreciate others) ...

Of the benefits: they do not have to ...) Zamorochki with drag and drop in Google, where it forms a set of dibilno in albums with dates instead of the name (I'm talking about the recently uploaded photos, as will long-uploaded pictures of Panorama did not know). Which then need to drag and drop, classify, rename ...

Bottom line: Google has become worse for me ...

Sorry for the very poor English, I write from the Ukraine, where, and so not fun.
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SteveT

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Oct 5, 2016, 7:02:03 PM10/5/16
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Dear Draken, 
I seem to have lost virtually all my Panoraimio stuff and my Google Earth photos now show up empty. Google Maps however still show full images for the time being. When I try and post here I have had a few errors getting through.

I had wondered for now years, what I would do if Panoramio folded. Though my photos have been used on loads of sites illegally, I knew I would end it if Panoramio or better ended that time is for me now. The effort in captioning, geo-tagging and key-wording was only for the little gain in knowing my photos were seen by many and hoping the some of the viewings were appreciated by a few.

When Google+ came along, I did link my Panoramio account but then photos stopped being automatically added to Google + some 2 years ago. As for Photos at Google.com, well that just did not work for me. I have since set up a Flickr account with a lot of my Panoramio Photos and feel its OK but just not the same as Panoramio.
 It has been always great to know, that with Panoramio and via Google Earth people could look at any position on the globe and get a feel for the area through photos and quite a few used to be mine. I am resigned and bereft to loose Panoramio from my life and can only blame Google for their short-sightedness.

Again I wish you and all the best and will try to respond here as long as possible.

Take care to all

Stephen

https://www.flickr.com/photos/89096286@N03/   my flickr pages and albums for anyone interested

Roger Powell

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Oct 5, 2016, 8:56:11 PM10/5/16
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Google have made a big mistake by not honouring the solemn promise made to Panoramio by James Thierrien in June 2015 to: "build a solution that strives to meet the majority of your needs". 

The resultant solution of Google Maps meets none of our needs. 

NONE!

Google Maps is truly an excellent site in its own right but it serves a very different purpose and ignores the needs of Panoramio users for proper members photo galleries, editable descriptions, favourite photographers, tags, groups, like/fav buttons, comments, translations, Google Earth and the opportunities to build friendships with fellow photographers.

Killing Panoramio makes Google a weapon of mass destruction. Seek, buy and destroy. Google never understood that Panoramio was so unique among its peer photo-sharing websites. It was not just the photos, it was also the people. It had a heart and soul.The vibrant atmosphere of Panoramio will never be resurrected in Maps.

Google Photos could have become the next Panoramio but instead it was born on life support. Picassa is already dead and Panoramio will be buried in the plot alongside it.

While I resent and am annoyed with Google's action, I will not be involved in any of the suggested boycotts. Life is too short to let the anger become so uncontrollable. 

I would like to add my appreciation to the Panoramio Founders, Joaquín Cuenca and Eduardo Manchón, because without their vision and enterprise we would not have been here at all.

Thanks too, to all the moderators for the constructive and positive manner in which you have always run this users forum - and the patient way you have dealt with the hundreds of repetitive posts! Well done.

Joe_Lourenco

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Oct 5, 2016, 11:50:30 PM10/5/16
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Thank you very much Herman and all the other Moderators here on Panoramio forums for all your hard work and support! May the future bring health and prosperity to you all!

Geosergio

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Oct 6, 2016, 2:57:08 AM10/6/16
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Hello friends,
I have a question. Will the tags survive? How will they organize the albums on google?
Thank you

ikar.us

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Oct 6, 2016, 5:27:10 AM10/6/16
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On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:58:29 UTC+2, hvbemmel wrote:
1. The photos will go to GM when you have a connection to G+ 

Does it have to be G+, or simple a Google account?
They are contradicting themselves in the text. 

ikar.us

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Aristaeus63 wrote: 
"You can only add photos for points of interest, like businesses or parks, but not addresses or coordinates."

Where is this from?
I only read that they have to be linked tzo a POI to be counted towards the local guide rank.

They can be mapped to coordinates,
but these must be provided via EXIF
and can't be set in the GM interface.
(And can thus never be corrected.)

hvbemmel

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Go to maps click the three lines in the searchbox, a menu opens
click "your contributions"
click photos
WYSIWYG, no tags. organised in one long line of all your photos either sorted by views or by date.

ikar.us

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I stumble about this condition:
if you have linked your profile with a Google+ account and you are attributing photos using your name (rather than Panoramio nickname)
Is the 2nd half a different setting?

ROSTAMDALILA

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Closing Panoramio equals murder or genocide web. The murder of hope and thousands of volunteer hours users of that benefit everyone. Will only cause mistrust in Google.

I wonder to what extent the company will succeed in replacing GM Panoramio.
What is important is the transfer of comments to continue the functioning of the community and thereby prevent loss of contact. For this thing to be fought. Likewise inadmissible degradation of seeing photos only from GM.
 
Please do not delete your photos from Panoramio!

Panoramio will have a year to live passively, and therefore there is still a faint chance still survive. You may need to buy another multinational or national giant !!!

After transfer to Google Maps, it is possible that the system will improve to a similar environment Panoramio. It's just speculation and wishful thinking.


Current liable Google who invented the G + and GM probably jealous of the popular Panoramio and therefore they want to destroy.

Alternative transfer photos to other web albums also does not guarantee long-term operation.

Disappear for a year or photos from the Panoramio layer in Google Earth? It would die and GE.

Photographs of users who will not pass on any serious reason to G + will be lost?

I hope all friends from the community Panoramio meet in GM.
Thank you all for seven years of cooperation, mutual support and virtual friendships.
Your user ROSTAMDALILA, perhaps later Jaroslav Novak.



Kaiser

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That's so disappointing. I just not only spend lots of hours on Panoramio only but also creating Panorank.com.

However, at least I can say that I'll keep Panorank.com so at least our user stats won't be lost. I'll try to change the code of the website for those who decide to delete their account are able to kkep the stats at Panorank.com.




Herman, I have a question for you. I linked my Panoramio account with G+ account but the pictures I've uploaded after December 2013 are not transferred. Do you know why?


Last but not least, thanks to all of you for being part of this awesome community an sharing your amazing pictures.


hvbemmel

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The transfer from PA photos to G+ was abandoned in 2013. The upcoming transition will bring the photos from Panoramio to photos.google.com. I guess that the link to G+ is meant to sort out the people who want their photos transferred to photos.google.com and Google Maps, so nobody can say that this happened without his permission. In Nov 2017 photos with a Google account, there still are some with a so called legacy account, will go to Photos, but (again) I guess that those will not show up in GM.

Keep in mind, the only info we have is the info all users have from the link on the photo page. We haven´t had any inside information for over 2 years now. .

Kaiser

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Thanks for your help!

El dijous, 6 octubre de 2016 9:19:07 UTC-4, hvbemmel va escriure:

Asinus99

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What will happen with the links via widget API

среда, 5 октября 2016 г., 7:03:02 UTC+3 пользователь hvbemmel написал:

paolo savigni

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Il giorno giovedì 6 ottobre 2016 12:04:01 UTC+2, hvbemmel ha scritto:
Go to maps click the three lines in the searchbox, a menu opens          OK
click "your contributions"         OK
click photos                     OK
WYSIWYG, to tags. organised in one long line of all your photos either sorted by views or by date.   NOT OK
I don't see anything else, no date no views count
   only my last photo updloaded
 

Aristaeus63

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It's from the instructions on how to post a photo on Google Maps.

hvbemmel

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Paolo, sorry, I mistyped, I edited my text now. NO tags

There is one long line of photos. 1098 in your case. When you scroll down more markers will show up, but there is no way to search for a certain photo. Even worse when you click on one photo, you will have to sart all over again from the beginning. In every photo you see three dots (right top) there you can share or delete.
right of the total views you see the word data. when you click that you can sort by views or as now by date. newest first 
Only photos directly uploaded to GM will show views. See screenshot.

.

Bartolomeo Gorgoglione

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I believe Panoramio or Google or whoever is taking any decision about closing down Panoramio galleries MUST provide a clear communication to all Panoramio users, to clearly state what's going on and options provided to people. We deserve it after years of enthusiast contribution to built such a huge image collection. As previously said also this forum will at some point shut down, so an email to all user will be much appreciated.

Specifically:
- what's the fate of pictures on our panoramio galleries? Specifying about mapped, unmapped, not selected for GE and Look around. 
- Will be the pictures still available via panoramio website? or how they will be transferred to GE, maps or whatever website? Is that an automatic process or we need to decide for them ? Can any user download a zip file with all is own images uploaded in panoramio? What's the time available for taking that decision (what's happen on 4th November precisely?)?
- What about number of views, comments, groups, favorite image and favorite photographers...will all those unique characteristic of panoramio be lost? Is there any way to save e.g. comments received for specific images?
- What king of copyright license will be applied to images transferred to the new system? Images will retain our preference or be classified all under the same copyright license? 

Best wishes to all Panoramio users, it has been a pleasure to be part of this community for such long time !
Bart
  

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digitography

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I have just signed up to ipernity, and it looks very good.
If anything a lot more organised than panoramio.
2 quid (GBP) per month won't break the bank, but with so many other free options like Flckr, it makes me wonder what future there is for ipernity?

digitography

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Agreed.


On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:16:40 UTC+1, laurence_cox wrote:
Let's all start by agreeing to boycott their 'Local Guides program'. We don't upload photos just to provide links to businesses, which is what they seem to think we are going to do (if business owners want to upload pictures showing off their businesses, they are quite entitled to do so, but it wasn't what Panoramio was set up for).

JBTHEMILKER

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I get an error message when I go to the link that answers everything. 


On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:03:02 AM UTC-4, hvbemmel wrote:

Pierre M.

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Hello Hermann !
Very bad news... but life continue. I 'm happy to discover Panormio few years ago.
 members help me to improve myself and I discover lot of very good photos and area.

Thks All

Pierre


CliveM

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Thanks for your help and patient moderation over the years.

The link says 
  • Images will only show in Google Maps if you have linked your profile with a Google+ account and you are attributing photos using your name (rather than Panoramio nickname).
What does "attributing photos using your name" mean and how do we do so?

[Later edit] I've discovered the answer for myself, I think. I was connected to my Google account, but not to my Google+ account. I've now used the Panoramio settings to connect to my Google+ account and now in various places you can all find out who I am!

CliveM

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I got an error message as well using Chrome, but for me it worked in Microsoft Edge. Try using a different browser.

CliveM

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When this evening I linked my Panoramio account to my Google+ account (rather than my Google account) all my pictures were attributed to me by name. I didn't have to do anything else to make it happen.

Diane MP

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Excellent, I will be putting that to use!!! I can't  believe it. What idiots those people are, just dithering and dithering and finally doing the cowardly thing. This certainly sours the taste of Googin general! I won't be using GM, never have except to find out how to get somewhere if by chance it's even accurate...

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:27:44 AM UTC-7, hvbemmel wrote:
NEW In the Panoramio settings (cogwheel right of your avatar) you can break the link between Panoramio and Google+, your photos will not be transferred to GM then.


Diane MP

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Many of your old Pano friends have been using Ipernity for a year, or so. We LOVE it. It's everything pano should have been and Google was too arrogant to accomplish. Here is my home page, in the Contacts you will find names you recognize, which will lead you to more, and so on...http://www.ipernity.com/home/1227338. As for the future of Ipernity and others, I suspect that the others will eventually be charging, too. Other options which I use, though like Ipernity best: 500px.com and YouPic.com. Neither is as community-feeling as Ipernity, but excellent quality.

Diane MP

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Dear Mods and Friends,

Thank you, meri beaucoup, grazie mille, muchas gracias, dank ye, danke, Спасибо and so on, for the many hours of fun and learning since 2007! It's been a fabulous way to get our photos on Earth, but the best part was the banter and information inspired by the photos!

I am a former Google Earth Community* moderator, so I know first hand how frustrating and even infuriating all of this is. That superb forum was closed last year, with about a month's notice, rendering useless all of the work many members and mods had put in since 2003 (!). Now, it's all just a museum of beautiful educational posts, as Google seems to phase out even maintenance of the glorious Google Earth. It's all about Maps. Google's communication with mods is poor and with members it is non-existent, but it's the friends I've made along the way that matter most. 

Warmest regards from Oregon USA,
Diane


*In case you're interested, join the new GEC (aka "nGEC") run by former GE mods: Google Earth Community  

Asinus99

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 GOOGLE MAPS DECLARED: [And when publishing via Google+, geotagged images with the appropriate permissions will also continue to appear in Google Maps and Google Earth. ] (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleMaps/posts/D4ggyFZwJDe)
1. It is really true for publishing via Google+ ?
"How does this happen? What is the mechanism? "
2. This work for  publishing via Google Photo too?

Or the only way  to appear in Google Maps  is " upload photos in GM when you go to a POI and click it"?

среда, 5 октября 2016 г., 14:58:29 UTC+3 пользователь hvbemmel написал:
1. The photos will go to GM when you have a connection to G+ There the photos will be reviewed anyway so I guess the review will go on if not in Panoramio then in GM
2. You only can upload photos in GM when you go to a POI and click it. In the left pane the POI will appear and you will have to look for "add a photo" there (under a photo which says xx photos). The you can upload as many photos as you like.  

On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:45:19 UTC+2, Vietoves.Lt wrote:
Hello,

it is very sad, that Panoramio will be not available for people shortly. But here are few questions, we all need to know.

1. We are still able to upload photos to Panoramio. They will be reviewed and approved for Google Maps? What is final date, then reviewers will complete own work?
2. Maybe anyone know, if it is (will be) possible upload batch geotagged photos to Google Maps like now to Panoramio?

Thank You.
Message has been deleted

hvbemmel

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What has been mentioned in the link you gave is history already. You only can upload photos you want to show public in GM using POIs and delete there too. Those photos will not go to photos.google.com, photos you upload directly to photos.google.com can not be shared publicly any longer, so they can´t go to GM or GE

Tomros

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Hello Herman,

First of all, thanks for your help in the years, I was active on Panoramio.
I was reading the notice about closing few days ago on Panoramio site.

Today I connected my account on Pano to Google plus. Almost immediately, the photos appeared on Google plus.

However only 1004 photos are showing, from Total of 1220. 

990 Photos where on Google maps and there may have been some already before.

That's leads me to conclusion, that photos not selected to GE are not transferred.

Is that correct?

Also, all photos are meanwhile linked to Panoramio, where you can see statistics.
google plus page show views like this. 1,004  393,531


My Panoramio page shows 16,852,497 views today

Where does the 16 million discrepancy comes from?

Thanks, Tomas 

I am quite happy on 500px pages since December 2014.  Their office is 40 minutes bicycle ride from my home and they are customer oriented and willing to help.
I would welcome any Panoramio refugee and invite them to be my follower https://500px.com/toro500

Tomros

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The way I understand, it provides link to places, not just businesses. It could be church, community center, park, opera house, government office.
I think it is useful and not very smart to boycott it. You can pick nearby public institution over a restaurant or shoe store. It is up to you.

Tomas

Tomros

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Tom, you stuck with it until the bitter end. Not sure, if I should say congratulation or what.

Thanks for your help in the years I was active. Thanks for the people who found my photos useful and interesting enough to view, like and comment on.

If you are ever visiting Toronto, hope you visit me.

I migrated my photos today and all went OK with few questions, I already asked Herman.

All the best, Tomas 

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:21:22 PM UTC-4, Tomas K☼h☼ut wrote:
Yeah, that's a "nice" early Christmas present!

All useful information included in our 
- conversation comments, 
- descriptions, 
- tags, 
- links to other resources from comments and desription, 
- favourite photographers and photos, 
- links to our galleries, photos and tags based selections from other web pages, 
- apps using API, 
- official and user organised contests and their results, 
- perhaps also this forum... 
...everything's going to die and disappear, all in vain. 

Thank you Google.
Thank you for the good time I enjoyed discovering the locations on Maps and Google Earth when planning, recalling or simply dreaming about the trips to remote locations.
Thank for letting me know some new virtual and also the real friends.
Thank for an education and a tutoring in the landscape photography I've got through this experience and with a help of the new friends.
Thank for all the thrill, learning curve and Panoramio experience from "Wow! My photos are on Google Earth!" through the discovery of the great photos in Panoramio Galleries and the photo games and competitions in the forum... to becoming a moderator helping others.
Thank for the meetings, either official ones organised by Google or informal ones we organise ourselves.
Big thanks to Eduardo and all other co-founders to make it all possible.

I cannot thank you Google for the way you handle Panoramio in last 3 years and how you finally resolve the "migration".
Although I read between the lines of the last (previous) official announcement by James Therrien that there will not be much effort to migrate all of our content and give us better, more flexible, more social, "brighter and more shining" tool to share our photos on maps... and as I observed "advancing" development of Maps - Your Contribution, Google Photos and Local Guides programme... despite all of that I remained loyal contributor to Panoramio, with a false hope in a miracle. It did not happened.

I have to take a break and cool off period to decide, if I leave with all my photos (read: if I should delete them all), or if it is better for me and my friends to keep them buried somewhere in Photos gallery.

Perhaps... it is also our fault that the popularity of Panoramio declined recently. Perhaps we shall interact and promote more this service, which used to be the breaking one. But most of all, we are the hobbyists and not the marketers. And it's hard to promote the service, which is for three years broken and without dedicated admins.

Perhaps I shall revive my account on ipernity or Flickr (or other photo sharing site), but there is no service which provide such a excellent combination of maps and photos for me. Hard decision. 

So hello and good bye Daniela, Herman, Draken, Matthew, Alex, Ihor, Andre, Alexandru, Mimi, Roar, Nick, Larry, Agneta, Amelia, Gudrun, Herb, Rob, David, JBM and many others (to name a few only...). Hope to see and meet you not only on the map.



CarmelH

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Thank you so much, moderators, users, everyone.

I'm not very active on the forums, yet, for 9 years Panoramio has been my home page and my favorite website.
I've reached 42.5 million views to my 23,354 photos, and my most impressive "achievement" was to be in the Top 10 GoogleEarth views.

It is sad to join everyone's goodbyes, but what we feared has apparently been, according to Google, inevitable.
I wish this thread could be archived so that some workers will be able to understand what Panoramio was for many of us.

I really don't know what to do with my photos after my next trip.
I joined after using Panoramio to plan a trip, decided to upload my own and the rest is history... What a shame.

Using Panoramio, I made many visual maps to easily know what are the best places to visit basically everywhere.
I attached an example of South America, if anyone is interested in this one or others...

10,512 people signed the petition! Wow.
Thank you all so much.
We've tried.

PavolG

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Offtopic, but how did you created that picture map? Some software?

Dňa piatok, 7. októbra 2016 21:06:24 UTC+2 CarmelH napísal(-a):

Daniela Brocca

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Tom, where did you found your photo from Panoramio in Google +? I only find the ones from Picasa but I was already in G+ in the last years.

Il giorno venerdì 7 ottobre 2016 20:02:45 UTC+2, Tomros ha scritto:
Tom, you stuck with it until the bitter end. Not sure, if I should say congratulation or what..

Yuri Rapoport

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Hi there, dear Pano friends,

With tears in my eyes, let met me bid farewell to all of you Pano people sharing your photos, commenting on them and building friendships. My special thanks go to Herman and other moderators of this forum as I understand how frustrating it must have been to keep it alive with no connection with Google. I don't think there are proper words I can use which would truly express my utter disappointment and bewielderment at the news of Panoramio closing. I feel like a huge part of me has just been ruthlessly taken away. My impression is that never in the future there will be such a functional and user-friendly site as Panoramio. Anyway, don't get too upset about it, life goes on. Best regards to everyone. Yuri.

CarmelH

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Hey PavolG, you can PM me if you want. (as long as that's available...)
Anyway, I used photoshop for editing, GoogleMaps for the the satellite image, and Panoramio for the photos, and GoogleEarth helped a lot too.

I hope GoogleEarth doesn't go down next...

Sleipnir's Master

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Hi Hvbemmel

After just periodically checking the forum as i do. I just found out bout Pano (never noticed the one liner). Sigh... now my only link to Google is Youtube cause no one i know uses G+ and the last post i done there was "Aug 22, 2013".
So are you giving up your Google Moderator ability? I know other Mods were openly criticising where as you seemed to keep your personal thoughts separate apart from the odd little worded dig a the big G. If you are leaving then it really is an end of an era.

to others Search Google Takeout if you are leaving Pano for good. However despite their claim it is doesn't always give you a 1:1 copy.


On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 05:03:02 UTC+1, hvbemmel wrote:

Sleipnir's Master

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It's not all that common either. Except travel agents using the API to show the area


On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:16:40 UTC+1, laurence_cox wrote:
Let's all start by agreeing to boycott their 'Local Guides program'. We don't upload photos just to provide links to businesses, which is what they seem to think we are going to do (if business owners want to upload pictures showing off their businesses, they are quite entitled to do so, but it wasn't what Panoramio was set up for).

IPAAT

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Just now I got this email:

Back in 2014, we announced our intention to retire Panoramio in order to invest our efforts into improving photo-sharing experiences directly inside Google Maps.  In response to your feedback, we postponed these plans and worked to add features to Maps that better support the level of engagement that you have enjoyed with Panoramio. Today, with photo upload tools in Google Maps and our Local Guides program, we are providing easy options for you to share your photos with an active and growing community. As such, we’ve decided to now close down Panoramio. To make this transition easier, we’ll provide several options to continue sharing photos through other services. If you choose, you can also export all your data and take it somewhere else.

Because you have linked your Panoramio profile with a Google+ account, all your Panoramio photos will be copied to the Google Album Archive at full resolution after Panoramio goes away. These copied photos will not use any of your Google storage quota. Your Panoramio photos that appear in Google Maps will continue to appear in Maps, unless you delete them later from the Maps Contributions panel.

After November 4, 2016, you’ll continue to have access to your photos in Panoramio for a year, but you will no longer be able to add new photos, likes, or comments.  Below, we’ve included resources to help you manage or export your data.  You can visit your Panoramio profile to see what photos you've added.  Because you have already linked your profile with a Google account, your Panoramio data will automatically be saved.

1) Keep your photos in Album Archive

We will automatically copy your Panoramio photos to the Google Album Archive when Panoramio is retired in November 2017.  Any photos that appear in Maps today will continue to appear in Maps.

  • Copied photos will not use any of your Google storage quota.
  • Eligible images and your View Counts will be transferred into Google Maps and will be visible when you sign in to Maps and access the Contributions screen from the main menu.

2) Export your photos to a local zip file

Visit takeout.google.com and follow the instructions there.

3) Become a Local Guide to keep contributing 

To keep adding photos to Google Maps and engage with a growing community of photographers, join the Local Guides program. You can earn points and unlock rewards for photos submitted with a Google account when they are linked to a point of interest or business. Many of your Panoramio photos may already be counted.

If you prefer to no longer share your photos with Google Maps, you can delete your Panoramio photos or your entire account at any time.  

  • You can delete your Panoramio account (and photos) immediately by logging in, opening "Settings", and clicking the "Delete your account" option.  You can also navigate to this page directly by using this link.
  • If you delete any photos (or delete your entire account) before Panoramio is retired in November 2017, that content will not be automatically copied to the Google Album Archive and will stop appearing in Google Maps.

Please see our Help Center article for more information and the various options you have to save, transfer, or delete your content. We’ve appreciated your contributions over the years and hope you will continue to share amazing photos with the world.

Thank you,

The Panoramio team

Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You've received this email to update you about your Panoramio account.



Who is The Panoramio team? ;-)

George Lamson

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This is so typical of Google. They come up with great ideas and set up wonderful services and then they get tired of them and close them down. They are kind of like a bright teenager with ADD. The list of this type of thing is getting longer and longer. What Google doesn't get is that when they invent a new service like this, a whole infrastructure and community develops that makes these services extremely useful to many people. This importance to others however, is totally unappreciated by Google. It really can't be a financial thing since this service probably costs Google nothing compared to the billions they make. It really just seems to be a lack of interest by the management.

Unfortunately, it seems pretty clear that the days are also numbered for Google Earth. Google has already given up on Google Earth Pro as a business and now without Panoramio there will be no way to get photos into Google Earth. It's pretty obvious from the way Google Maps is becoming more and more business/urban/traffic centric that there will be little room for a geographically focused system like GE. I just hope it takes them another couple of years before they close it down.

Thanks to everyone at Panoramio for all their hard work over the years. It was certainly great while it lasted.

Geo


Matthew Walters

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I got the same, and finished reading it with the same question. At least they said 'thank you', but it's a pity they didn't visit the forum to announce this - although the topic would probably have been locked for replies.

Daniela Brocca

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Come all to Ipernity , it's a nice site.

http://www.ipernity.com/home/1061169  take a look at my contacts.

UrbanPhoto

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Well Folks, I am extremely disappointed that I will not be able to post anymore photos of particular locations and views and map them accordingly. I enjoyed seeing the photos of others and had hoped that my photos placed on Google Maps and Google Earth might long out live me and had hoped that friends of mine might even by chance come across the images I took and say "Hey, I know the guy that took that photo!" Panoramio was an excellent past time and a great place to share photos and views of our Planet. So many contributors will be affected by the shortsightedness of a conglomerate.

As far as I know, there is no other way to contribute photos of places and views of an area and have them mapped for all to see. I refuse to be an advertising portal for businesses and be a pawn in Googles master plan. I feel sorry for those that have spent countless precious hours posting photos on Panoramio with pride only to have that ability taken away. Google wants everyone to work for them for free. Not me.

Good luck to everyone. Thank you to all the moderators for their efforts and perhaps one day in the future there will be another platform to share our views of our world.
Steve R


On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 9:03:02 PM UTC-7, hvbemmel wrote:

Scyld Scefing

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Oct 7, 2016, 7:29:57 PM10/7/16
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Bravo, google.... What's here to say. They are buying and spoiling/killing every interesting project they find. Now I have to use flickr for photos and yandex for maps. And these services are WAY better then anything from google today. Google Earth is dead also. No updates, satellite maps are so old there are no roads that already exist. Way to go... Maybe it's time to delete my google account, 'cause it's pointless.

hvbemmel

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Tomros

We are kept in the dark about everything and we have noone we can ask so I can not answer your questions. maybe https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/maps can. I only can gues the transition is going on in full speed, there are no photos on my profile yet. So you probably have to wait it out to see the final results, as usual I would say.

Sorry  

davidcmc58

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Although I have been inactive in Panoramio since September 2014, I am still very sad to learn that it will soon be history. Between 2008 and 2014 Panoramio was my go-to web site whenever I am near a computer. I learned so much about photography, geography as well as having great on-line communication with members from all over the world. Panoramio brought me such great joy during the 6 years that I was active! We should all salute the founders Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar for giving us this great site. And the numerous moderators' efforts throughout the years deserve a big "Thank You" as well. Because I have moved on to Flickr and 500PX 2 years ago, my choice for Pano is to do nothing and just let my 1937 uploads simply fade away. Gone with them are thousands of encouraging comments and 19 million + views, but the wonderful memory will always remain. Good luck to you all Panoramio fellow members and let's keep on snapping.

JBTHEMILKER

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How do we know if we have conected our account to Google +?  When I go to the settings page I see "Google+ settings". Does that mean I am all set?

hvbemmel

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Wodan ;-) , You leave me with a red head, thx for your nice words. (goes for everybody else of course). I think you must have missed my heavy sarcasm in many threads about Views, Maps etc.:-) , When someone needs help that doesn´t help though and I left my critics away there. For the rest, I will certainly not go for a place amongst the Top contributors on the map forum. I said this before, but the  way you have to earn points and best answers to get up in the competition is typically not my way, not the way we were raised in Europe anyway. The same goes for the local guides program. When I put photos in Maps it will be to show the world, not to earn points. I have no other aspirations to do other moderating work either. I´m 65 years old, have plans for many trips and will leave my photos on Ipernity, where I, among many moderators and other panoramios, have an account for yeurs now. it was dormant, but that will change soon I hope.

The takeout just gives you back what you have put in, but more compressed. No geodata, when you dont´have them in the EXIF, no comments, no nothing So if you have the photos on harddrive (I even have 3 copies of each) there´s no need to takeout. And yes there are many hickups too.

hvbemmel

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JB, there are two possibilities in the settings, very basic. when it says Disconnect from Google+   then you are connected, when it says connect to G+ you are not connected 

Costas Athan

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You can't assign a photo to exact coordinates in Google Maps, right?
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Wim Constant

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Well, actually the last (automatic) GE update was on 25-08-2016 at 15:23:04


Op zaterdag 8 oktober 2016 01:29:57 UTC+2 schreef Scyld Scefing:

Wim Constant

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Oct 8, 2016, 7:50:58 AM10/8/16
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I don't understand the transfer at all.
I have at this moment 6000 photos on my Panoramio account. 5736 are selected for GE/GM
Now on Google Maps I have 5791 photos. a little more than the selected, a little less than on Panoramio.

But the biggest annoyance, in my opinion, is the fact that EVERY TIME you want to watch one of these photos on GM you have to start at the latest upload and scroll all the way down.
Watching two or more photos in a row is not possible (as far as I know). You have to start with the latest upload EVERY TIME!!!



Op vrijdag 7 oktober 2016 19:41:56 UTC+2 schreef Tomros:

Costas Athan

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Oct 8, 2016, 8:21:18 AM10/8/16
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Also one more question: Can you add titles to photos uploaded directly to Google Maps?

hvbemmel

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Oct 8, 2016, 8:59:12 AM10/8/16
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When you open a photo, all your photos shown on the map with markers will be displayed and clickable in the bottom photo row. So if you want to go down to photo zero there should be 5700+ photos in that row, or your computer (ore youself) exploded before you are ready. I did not go down the whole way. I think this scrolling is totally beep! (last word censored by moderator HVB as being abusive, well in Dutch it begins with K and ends on T)

Left of the title and your name there is a little arrow pointing left. click that and you will come back to the photo at hand, so not to the beginning.
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