听说谷歌要关闭 panoramio ，请问，这是真的吗？
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多希望Panoramio一直存在下去,让我们为她去做些什么吧，否则将永远失去她
Google: Keep The Panoramio Community Alive
Petition by
Panoramio Founders Joaquín, Jose and Eduardo
Spain
Since Google announced the closing of Panoramio we, the Panoramio founders, have got hundreds of messages from Panoramio users from all around the world that want to keep the Panoramio Community alive.
For 9 years Panoramio users have been carefully taking, selecting, sharing and manually geolocating 80 millions of photos for countless hours. They gave Google the right to display their photos in Earth and Maps. It is fair to ask Google to keep the Panoramio community alive in exchange.
Panoramio is not just a website, nor a tool like Google Reader, Panoramio is a group of people that care about good pictures and love to illustrate the World. Users have become friends at Panoramio, they have met personally all around the world, even one met her husband at Panoramio... read the reasons below the petition to know about more personal stories. Panoramio is about people that shared tens of thousands of photos. They made a great effort that benefited Google.
Google offered users to migrate to Google Views. This new service looks great, but Views is not Panoramio and it never will be. Every community is unique by itself, like any group of people is different from any other one. Many Panoramio users don't feel that they fit into Google Views mainstream snapshots. You can’t force anyone to merge with a different group of people.
No reply was possible in the closing announcement in the Panoramio forum. Users don’t like the scary migration plan through Google Drive with two steps. Users gotbroken promises of keeping the site alive just few days ago. Some core features for the community are going to be lost (faves updates, comments…). No wonder why Panoramio users don’t want to migrate to Views, the migration as planned will kill the Panoramio Community. We wrote a detailed document “Open questions about the Panoramio migration” with our take.
Sign this petition to ask Google to keep the Panoramio Community alive.
Featured testimonies:
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- From Belgium
Please, let Panoramio continue.
I'm 86 now, and still hoping to contribute to show the beauty of nature through my pictures and gives me the courage to move every day, 1.5 hours,
and it would be sad to lose all the friends... will surely it is a great loss to the many people their hobby ... all to try to save it, many thanks, best wishes
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- From USA
Trikermike (Mike Clyburn) was a great friend I met in real life through Panoramio. Such was his love for Panoramio, he felt moved to produce a book featuring poetry inspired by photos taken by his Pano friends. He spent nearly two years getting permission from those friends to feature their photos, and in finding a suitable publisher. The other purpose of the book was raise funds for a charity that helped disabled achieve their goals - Mike was quite severely disabled himself. His "Wee Book(let)" and his many comments are his legacy to all his friends and it will be devastating to see his contributions callously deleted when Panoramio is destroyed in the name of "Progress". Mike died on the 16th of April this year and one saving grace is that he didn't see what Google intend doing to his beloved community.
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- From Austria
I have met my love on Panoramio eight years ago. It started all with a comment on a photo, that finally made us meet and close the gap of 1300 kilometers between Paris and Vienna that seperated us.
The numerous pages in Panoramio with our mutual comments are for us the lucky landscape of our meeting and also of our artistic exchange and development. Panoramio therefore is infinitely precious to us.
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- From the Netherlands
Panoramio is more than a hobby to me, It became a part of my life! This may sound dramatic, but thats the way it is... I hope that there is a way to keep Panoramio alife otherwise it would be a big loss, to mw and to the world! Martin Klumper
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- From India
panoramio is the facebook of photographers of the world
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From Hungary
Panormio is a part of my life. Community that inspire me to travel!
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- From Romania
Panoramio community is very important for me . I am a member of it since March 2008 , I have a lot of friends all over the world , having constant discussions along the time with them .I traveled with Panoramio in so many places ... In my country , Romania , we had pano meetings that were great , we get there shirts and badges with Panoramio logo , meet a lot of wonderful people and keep in touch with them all those years , visiting , become friends . In my town I have friends from Pano and about twice times a month we meet and take pictures together at different events .
Guys from Google, do you realize that you have created extraordinary phenomenon named Panoramio??? Do not destroy it !!!
Baycrest
管理員指出越來越多人使用手機和Google Maps APP，而且也經常用手機拍照和即時分享照片，Panoramio的網站結構已追不上這方面的變化。他們認為關閉Panoramio，把我們和我們的照片轉移到Views，在Views繼續發展，才是最好的解決辦法。他們強調所有的照片和照片觀看次數都可以轉移到Views，但是群組(Groups)、喜歡的攝影師、留言就不會轉移到Views。
Panoramio創辦人Joaquín, Jose 和 Eduardo已在美國白宮的change.org網站發起簽名運動，要求美國白宮回應此事http://www.change.org/p/google-larry-and-sergey-google-keep-the-panoramio-community-alive，我建議大家也去簽名，表達要求保留已有成熟社群的Panoramio！