Dear Herman, Matthew, Draken and othersI'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.
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.
e future bring health and prosperity to you all!
1. The photos will go to GM when you have a connection to G+
"You can only add photos for points of interest, like businesses or parks, but not addresses or coordinates."
if you have linked your profile with a Google+ account and you are attributing photos using your name (rather than Panoramio nickname)
Go to maps click the three lines in the searchbox, a menu opens OKclick "your contributions" OKclick photos OKWYSIWYG, to tags. organised in one long line of all your photos either sorted by views or by date. NOT OKI don't see anything else, no date no views count
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).
Hello Hermann !
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.
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 GM2. 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.
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.
Tom, you stuck with it until the bitter end. Not sure, if I should say congratulation or what..
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).
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.
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.
Visit takeout.google.com and follow the instructions there.
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.
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.
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