Panoramio Photos DON'T OPEN IN GOOGLE EARTH -- Resolved !!

[Mansoor Goheer]

I am using using Google earth 4.2 since last two years without any problem. However i have encountered a problem since last month.

In google earth when I click on a panoramio photo icon a callout opens which has the text for the location name followed by country name ---- regardless how long I wait the photo preview does not load.... and its true for all the photos I have tried in last one month. Double clicking the icon has the same result --- a blank callout with location text only. However, when I hover over the icon a photo title do appear.

Pictures were opening fine in Google Earth till a few weeks ago.

I have gone through this forum and tried the suggested remedies including turning the suggested features off and clearing the caches etc but ---- it does not solve my problem

Please suggest a solution to resolve

[RoarX]

Why not upgrade to the current version (6) and see if that works for you. I don't think version 4 are supported with upgrades anymore.

[Amelia Royan]

I am having the same problem, no photos are available. I updated GE a couple of weeks ago, and before that everything was fine.

It isn't Panoramio's problem, but it is frustrating as I wanted to look at photos of Bruges. We are taking a trip for 3 days tomorrow

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Amelia, goheer

can you specify photo that does not open?

Currewntly, there are some other glitches in GE:
http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35465
Maybe as result of either "fine tuning" the cluster feature, or by running some infrastructure upgrade.

[RoarX]

The photos in Google maps seems to be working. but I think that there are fewer photos displayed there than in GE.

[©polytropos]

I don't know if this fits in the same category, but I din't want to open a new thread.

I have a real funny problem with some pictures of mine in Google Earth:
For instance this picture:

      http://www.panoramio.com/photo/52498770

This picture is accepted for Google Earth and obviously it has been visited in GE (see statistics with the visitors in GE). I also can find the picture in Google Maps.
But, when I look in GE at this position the title of my picture appears when I sweep with the cursor over it. But when I click on it, a completely different picture will be open!
Not only this. When I repeat it several time, there appears also other pictures, but obviously it's not a cluster. Funny, isn't it?

[Galatas ©]

http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35462&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

[Amelia Royan]

Quote Tomas K☼h☼ut:

No photos whatsoever are appearing on GE. I have just this minute downloaded version 6 to no avail

[Galatas ©]

Have you "ticked" the Photo layer ? It's in the Layers tab of the left hand control pane.

[Amelia Royan]

Quote Galatas:

Have you "ticked" the Photo layer ? It's in the Layers tab of the left hand control pane.

Yes the photo box is ticked. The new icons appear, but no photos are there. i am not sure why - I was able to view photos until about 5 weeks ago

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Amelia, can you make a screenshot of what you see when you click photo icon and upload this screenshot to Panoramio? (don't be affraid, this type of screenshots is OK).

Is this behaviour same when you use different computer? (I hope you can aks somebody.)

[Amelia Royan]

Quote Tomas K☼h☼ut:

Amelia, can you make a screenshot of what you see when you click photo icon and upload this screenshot to Panoramio? (don't be affraid, this type of screenshots is OK).

Is this behaviour same when you use different computer? (I hope you can aks somebody.)

You are asking someone who is not very computer literate to do this Tomas?

I get the neat little icons, but if I click on one of them, all it gives me is something like this:

Sola,,Norway

I do get the photo titles if I hover over the icon though. I will be back in Norway using a little lap top on Wednesday, and will check if the same thing happens.

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Ok, Amelia, hard to see whats going wrong.

You can make screenshot with your camera and upload it as a photo.

[Terje Sannum]

Quote Amelia Royan:

I get the neat little icons, but if I click on one of them, all it gives me is something like this:

Sola,,Norway

I do get the photo titles if I hover over the icon though. I will be back in Norway using a little lap top on Wednesday, and will check if the same thing happens.

This might be the same I have experienced at work. There I'm not able to see any pictures, but get the popup when I click the icons. I don't know how Google Earth downloads these pictures, and have not investigated this. But could it be that they don't use the proxy settings or use a non-standard port that is blocked by a firewall or some anti-virus software?

[Amelia Royan]

Quote Tomas K☼h☼ut:

Ok, Amelia, hard to see whats going wrong.

You can make screenshot with your camera and upload it as a photo.

I'll take a screen shot for you and post it as a temporary measure

[Amelia Royan]

Quote Terje Sannum:

We use Mozilla Firefox, Terje. It can be fussy at times about what it 'accepts'.

[Mansoor Goheer]

Quote Tomas K☼h☼ut :

Amelia, goheer

can you specify photo that does not open?

Currewntly, there are some other glitches in GE:
http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35465
Maybe as result of either "fine tuning" the cluster feature, or by running some infrastructure upgrade.

I have tried many regions ---- Europe, USA, China and other asian countries --- All images have the problem I have explained in my earlier post. I have uploaded 04 screen shots. One of the screen shot shows a 360 picture loading and opening !!






Regards
Goheer

[Galatas ©]

There you go

[♠ c0l0gne1 ♣]

Have you tried this (from the GE Help Forum):

Internet Explorer
1. Launch Control Panel
2. Double click "Internet Options"
3. Select the "Connections" tab
4. Press the "LAN settings" button
5. Ensure "Automatically detect settings" is disabled
6. OK, OK, close Control Panel
7. You'll probably need to restart GE

It worked for me even though I use FF.

[Mansoor Goheer]

Quote ♠ c0l0gne1 ♣:

Thanks for the sugestion c0l0gne1
I have changed the setting ---- but no luck --- everything as just as before !!

[Mansoor Goheer]

Thanks Galatas

I have learnt the trick thru "reverse engineering"

Regards
Goheer

[Galatas ©]

Quote goheer:

Thanks Galatas

I have learnt the trick thru "reverse engineering"

I taught myself how to make active links in forum posts the same way.

[Amelia Royan]

Quote goheer:

Quote Galatas:

There you go

Thanks Galatas

I have learnt the trick thru "reverse engineering"

Regards
Goheer

This is exactly the same problem as I have - I cannot see any photos using GE

[Mansoor Goheer]

Quote Amelia Royan:

This is exactly the same problem as I have - I cannot see any photos using GE

I can not see any Panoramio picture in GE but I can see 360 cities and other pictures in GE ---- my problem is specific to Panoramio

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

I tried to find the answer in GE forum - without success.

I am almost sure this bug depends on your computer/network setting, but I cannot tell you what has to be changed.

I will try to get attention of admins for this problem. Information about your operating system and perhaps internet browser could help too...

[Galatas ©]

Have you tried turning off the 360 Cities layer ? I have a vague recollection of this causing a problem for some users a while ago.

[AustinMN]

Quote Galatas:

Have you tried turning off the 360 Cities layer ? I have a vague recollection of this causing a problem for some users a while ago.

The worst offender is 3D buildings, but 360Cities can cause problems. Now that Panoramio and 360Cities are in separate sub-layers, that one is easy to correct.

Austin

[Mansoor Goheer]

Quote Tomas K☼h☼ut:

I tried to find the answer in GE forum - without success.

I am almost sure this bug depends on your computer/network setting, but I cannot tell you what has to be changed.

I will try to get attention of admins for this problem. Information about your operating system and perhaps internet browser could help too...

I appreciate the suggestions by all members !!

3D buidings is already turned off

I have turned off the 360 cities layers but no positive outcome

Just to apprise all ---- my internet service provider, internet & network settings, operating system & its settings and the GE version & its settings ------ There's no change since last two years ---- panoramio pictures were opening fine till third week of April --- this problem is since last week of April with apparently all other settings of my computer unchanged and all other software and internet functions working without any problems !!!

[Amelia Royan]

Quote goheer:

I couldn't have put it better, goheer. I have tried all suggestions, and photos do not show up since GE 'insisted' that I upgrade to version 6, probably about the last week of April in fact.

[Mansoor Goheer]

I have found something interesting !!!

This is a screen shot of "google earths community" icon which has a panoramio picture tagged in it

and when I click it -- the panoramio picture opens perfectly well through google earth community icon !!


and when I click a panoramio icon on the same screen ---- does not show picture !! Just an empty baloon with location !!


If the panoramio pictures opens through other icons and 360 Cities and Giga pictures open well --- why doesn't Panoramio pictures open through their own icon !!

Can some one explain ???

[liana_t]

I'm having the exact same problem as the others. Goheer how did you get that to work, what is the google earth community icon (sory not a frequent user)

[LuciaM]

The GEC placemark appears to be a copy of a Panoramio placemark from when Panoramio photos were first added as a GE layer. (It was posted to GEC in March 2007.) If you were to save the placemark to My Places, then right-click > open Properties, you'll see that the photo in the placemark is linked directly to its Panoramio page. I assume that's why there's no problem or delay in viewing the photo.

Now the process by which a photo appears in a panoramio balloon is more complicated: a different database, use of scripts etc. Still in the dark as to current delays.

[PeymanPakzad]

I have such problem. Nobody can help?....

[Thomaskm]

Same timing as other users. I upgraded to latest GE & Java versions. No result. No solution

[Thomaskm]

I FIXED MINE !!

First I uninstalled GE using Programs and Features in Vista. Then I clicked on my desktop Icon that was still there and GE opened ( and still did not load Panoramio pics). Come on, I just deleted it? I went back to Programs and it was no longer on the list of installed software. Then In GE I clicked on Help, About Google Earth, and read the version number was still 4.xx. Turns out no matter how many times I loaded GE 6.xx I was still running 4.xx.
It was residing on my E: drive, and I was installing 6.xx on my C: drive.

No Matter what I was always running the old version. I could not use the GE 4.xx unistall as it was pointing in all the wrong places so I sent the whole folder to the recycle bin.
Now with ALL GE files erased from ALL drives, I downloaded the latest and all Panoramio pictures now appear. All good here!

When you open GE check what version is running in Help. If it is not the latest follow the above steps. ( not a Java problem, I almost started ripping it down also,) If you right click on your GE desktop icon and check "Properties" you can see where your version resides on disk.

[liana_t]

I did try what you suggested (I was also running 4.xx) but it didn't work. Now I've lost the text description from the balloon e.g. Albany, Australia.

[Amelia Royan]

This problem still has not been solved. I continue to get only a placemark on Google Earth. I'm very envious of those people who have a working programme!

[John Hains]

H'mmmm, I guess I should actually check to see if I can find MY photos on GE. Once loaded and accepted, I just check once in a while in Panoramio to see if anyone has viewed them. Never thought to look at GE for my own photos when I've got them right here on Panoramio. Go figure. Gone to do some checking....


OK, it looks good for me. I'm on a Mac but I also tried using a couple of PC's with XP on them. No problems that I can detect...of course I haven't checked all of them yet. A couple of them moved a little though. Not bad...I'll just reposition them.

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Quote Amelia Royan:

This problem still has not been solved. I continue to get only a placemark on Google Earth. I'm very envious of those people who have a working programme!

Amelia, I asked you before - did you try GE on different computers?
And with your computer connected to different network?
And what is your GE version? (Goto menu Help -> About Google Earth).

[Thomaskm]

Make sure you are running GE Version 6.0.2.2074 or higher.

[Mansoor Goheer]

I have finally resolved the Google earth pictures problem !! Till this time I was attempting to upgrade my GE 4.2 to Ver 6. Well this time I intalled the latest version of GE by running the setup. After the install I have both versions of GE functional on my computer. While the earlier version has the same problem --- the newer version -- GE 6 displays the pictures fine!!

[liana_t]

Mine works now, and I've done nothing to it. The format of the picture balloon (display, banners etc) has changed but I get both the pictures and the text.

YAY!!

[Mountain Man Rocky]

I know this an old topic, but I'm having the same problem and I didn't see a resolution on here that fixed it.

I'm using version 7.1.1.1580 at work, and either the same or newer at home, and this happens on both computers. I can click on the Photos (which use Panoramio) for a while, then eventually it will stop displaying the photos. Where the photo should be is just text, usually with the area name(county, country, etc.),and that's it. I have to close and re-open Google Earth for it to start working again. This problem has been going on for over a year for me, and even with several new installs/upgrades, it keeps happening. I'm surprised this is the only place I've found this problem mentioned. Does anyone have any other ideas to help fix it?  

Thanks

On Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:06:46 AM UTC-6, Mansoor Goheer wrote:

I am using using Google earth 4.2 since last two years without any problem. However i have encountered a problem since last month.

In google earth when I click on a panoramio photo icon a callout opens which has the text for the location name followed by country name ---- regardless how long I wait the photo preview does not load.... and its true for all the photos I have tried in last one month. Double clicking the icon has the same result --- a blank callout with location text only. However, when I hover over the icon a photo title do appear.

Pictures were opening fine in Google Earth till a few weeks ago.

I have gone through this forum and tried the suggested remedies including turning the suggested features off and clearing the caches etc but ---- it does not solve my problem

Please suggest a solution to resolve

[hvbemmel]

sounds like a cache problem to me. in the option you can enlarge the cache size

in GE Tools/options / tab cache

[Mountain Man Rocky]

Thanks for the quick response! I'll try changing the settings. Right now I have Memory Size at 500 MB and Disk Cache at 2000 MB.

[hvbemmel]

the max disc cache size is written in the text in the cache screen.  you also can empty the cache in that screen, saves you starting up again.

Further questions about GE you best ask in the GE product forum as there are users more specialised in GE. Don´t e afraid to open a new topic ;-)

[plankeye]

Doesn't work

On Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:38:52 AM UTC-4, c0l0gne1 wrote:

Have you tried this (from the GE Help Forum):

Internet Explorer
1. Launch Control Panel
2. Double click "Internet Options"
3. Select the "Connections" tab
4. Press the "LAN settings" button
5. Ensure "Automatically detect settings" is disabled
6. OK, OK, close Control Panel
7. You'll probably need to restart GE

It worked for me even though I use FF.

[Wim Constant]

That's incomprehensible, 5 (FIVE!) years ago it worked! Coiuld it be something has changed meanwhile!

Op vrijdag 16 september 2016 21:04:06 UTC+2 schreef plankeye:

[philipus]

Thanks for the solution works fine for me:)

[tadeusz.m.stasiak]

Do the pictures still work in your GE after Panoramio's closure?

They seem to have dissappered since yesterday..

Blank loading pop-up appears, with the shape of the picture, but no picture at all..

any help? anyone? (it worked yesterday, ane the day before and so on, now it doesn't, on any of my two computers..)

[maliyan]

Same here tadeusz, I was dreading this and HOPING there was an alternative. I use those photos all the time when planning trips, even work

[canarytops]

This would appear to be a "new" problem as I've been using GE for quite a few days recently (holiday planning !) and all has been fine until today when no Photos are being displayed.

[hvbemmel]

Well it would be an isue for the productforum. Nevertheless I published it in the moderators forum. don´t know if anyone from Google still reads that.

[maliyan]

I checked both my PC's and same ussue. Weirdly my Android version of GE the photos linked to panoramio still appear on command. Maybe a staged process?

[maliyan]

For info, PC version GE worked fine when linking to Panoramio images today.

[bagdesh rangi]