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Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 19, 2014, 10:16:02 PM9/19/14
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I know i asked this about 2 years ago but has anyone made a program that lets me mass download all my photos? @ 1500pictures that's alot of Download > Next > Download > Next etc...

No FTP style access too accounts?

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Sep 19, 2014, 10:23:03 PM9/19/14
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The latest post from Evan says such a tool is coming for those who don't want to migrate to Google+.

Anybody want to bet on whether you have to have G+ to use the tool, even if you are not migrating to G+?

hvbemmel

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Sep 19, 2014, 11:41:53 PM9/19/14
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https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

select Panoramio (deselect everything else)
photos will be archived as zipfiles max 2GB each
you will get an email when the files are ready to download (after minutes rather then after hours depending on how many files have to be made)
download those, The photos bare the title you made and have geo data in the exif

df3vi

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Sep 20, 2014, 4:17:43 AM9/20/14
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There are several reports that the download did not even start, or failed to save afterwards. So this seems to be another Google type of product, done half way...

David Humphreys ( formerly Galatas )

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Sep 20, 2014, 5:33:22 AM9/20/14
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I had two failed attempts at "Takeout" , The first was my fault.  You have to leave the "Select All" box checked but uncheck everything except Panoramio otherwise the download won't start.
I don't know why the second failure occured. All appeared to be running normally but after many minutes when the process ended there was an error in the download folder. On the next attempt everything went smoothly.

Lady GooGoo La La

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Sep 20, 2014, 5:40:12 AM9/20/14
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David

I tried a "Takeout"  several times it got to 99% complete less than a minute to go and then failed, I retried (from the downloads in browser FF) and it completed the action in < 1min.

This happen several times to me, seemed if I left it to complete on its own ...it would fail and had to be restarted.

Lady GooGoo LaLa

MikeFromholt

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Sep 20, 2014, 8:40:40 AM9/20/14
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My attempt went fine on first try....highly unusual......Now I sit and wait to decided whether I ditch view/panorama or not. I really am tired of Google screwing things up, such as the things they've done with panoramio, and don't like some of the aspects on View. Now I wonder if there's an easy way to load them onto another site(ie:flickr, nat geo)

Mike

David Humphreys ( formerly Galatas )

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Sep 20, 2014, 9:22:18 AM9/20/14
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Flickr allows bulk uploads.
When selecting a large number of files it will warn you that selecting too many at once could result in problems if there should be any interuptions during the upload. Depending on individual file size you should have no problems as long as you upload in reasonable batches.
My only problem with Flickr is the difficulty in organising your photostream ie main page. I would recommend only uploading a small number at first until you have explored the workings of the site. Having got used to how it works you might want to delete everything and start again.

chris65

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Sep 20, 2014, 10:54:48 PM9/20/14
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I have done this and I got a single 12GB file. It does not get split up into 2GB files. Also the GPS info seems to be missing from the great majority of files. The filenames were the same as the image titles I added during the original upload. Numbers in parentheses were added where I used the same title.

Wim Constant

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Sep 21, 2014, 5:58:30 AM9/21/14
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I used:  https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom and only ticked "Panoramio".
Some time later I received an email grom Google, that my archive was ready for downloading.
I got 10 files to download, 9 of them 2GB, the 10th was 216 MB.
I tried to download them a few files at the time, but that gave errors.
So, I downloaded them one by one without any problem.
Maybe you can try that? I can't promise it will work, but in my case it did well.

NB: I had to clean the cache and remove cookies before it all went well!!!!


UPDATE: 

I uploaded a few of the photos from the Takeout to my Flickr account.
It all works well. Titles and EXIF data are also transferred.
ONLY Panoramio photos that are mapped, but NOT selected for GE/GM are not mapped on Flickr
Fortunately, for me, that's less than 200 photos (of 4842) in my case.

success



Op zondag 21 september 2014 04:54:48 UTC+2 schreef chris65:

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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There used to be problems with Take-out some time ago (reported at the end of 2013 to team) - only small fraction of photos were exported (this may applied to huge galleries only).
It seems to be fixed now. Yesterday I tried this again and I receive 4 zip files containing same count of photos as I have in my gallery. I did not check the content of all of them and did not check for duplicates.

Data you get are equivalent "Save as" photo download from original picture e.g. http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/98533534.jpg
If you map photos after upload, this information is lost.


On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:58:30 AM UTC+2, Wim Constant wrote:
UPDATE: 

I uploaded a few of the photos from the Takeout to my Flickr account.
It all works well. Titles and EXIF data are also transferred.
ONLY Panoramio photos that are mapped, but NOT selected for GE/GM are not mapped on Flickr

Really? How could they (at Flickr) know the photos not selected on Panoramio? 
My photos not selected for GE (which were mapped in EXIF before upload) has GPS location saved in EXIF after takeout, same as for GE selected photos. So I wonder how can be Flickr so picky?



Wim Constant

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Sep 21, 2014, 5:53:48 PM9/21/14
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I don't know.
Of course the problem can't be at Flickr, so it must be something in the data coming from Panoramio.
Or it's just a co-incidence.
I have not (yet) uploaded all 4842 photos from my Take-out to Flickr.
But the biggest problem with Take-out is that you lose the sequence in which your photos were uploaded.
They appear alphabetic in Take-out.
Furthermore almost all the labels are gone too, 

Op zondag 21 september 2014 23:00:27 UTC+2 schreef Tomas K☼h☼ut:

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Wim, can you give me Panoramio IDs of photos that were not mapped in Flicker? I'll try to look at it.

It would be better to have filenames by Panoramio photo ID than make (often incomplete) attempt to use photo title as file name.
This way we have at least a part of Panoramio title assigned to photo. Note this:
Dile dates are upload dates, so you can
- put files from all ZIP archives into one folder
- sort files in the folder by creation date
That's all you need.

Labels (tags) and titles are gone - of course, unless they were a part of photo before upload to Panoramio.
I use photo organizing software Zoner and I use it to put (Czech) tags and titles to photos EXIF.
These titles (but also the tags!) are recognized and automatically used on Flickr!

On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:53:48 PM UTC+2, Wim Constant wrote:
I don't know.
Of course the problem can't be at Flickr, so it must be something in the data coming from Panoramio.
Or it's just a co-incidence.
I have not (yet) uploaded all 4842 photos from my Take-out to Flickr.
But the biggest problem with Take-out is that you lose the sequence in which your photos were uploaded.
They appear alphabetic in Take-out.
Furthermore almost all the labels and titles are gone too

Roger Heath

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Sep 21, 2014, 9:03:34 PM9/21/14
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Hello Tomas - In the past when I downloaded my Panoramio portfolio [982 images at the time] I saw that image file sizes had been reduced anywhere from 200kb to 800kb. All images were uploaded at 1.5MB to 2MB. All file names are based on the title of the image not the Panoramio number, and of course, the files are alphabetical based on title name.
I don't know if other users know the download flies have been reduced in size. So what size are the files when uploaded to Flicker?

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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On Monday, September 22, 2014 3:03:34 AM UTC+2, Roger Heath wrote:
Hello Tomas - In the past when I downloaded my Panoramio portfolio [982 images at the time] I saw that image file sizes had been reduced anywhere from 200kb to 800kb. All images were uploaded at 1.5MB to 2MB.

That's strange. Can you reproduce it and give me an example of "shrinked" photo? Are you sure original size was bigger?
One thing that is great on Panoramio (and in fact, it was one of the reasons I decide to use it as my photo site) is that you can get out from Panoramio exactly the same file as you put in.
 
All file names are based on the title of the image not the Panoramio number, and of course, the files are alphabetical based on title name.

There is nothing like "fixed order" in the set of the files in any folder. You can reorder the files according couple of keys. One key is file date. If you are on Windows, extract all photos from zip archive into one folder. Right click at some empty space of that folder workspace and context menu  shall appear with command "Sort by". Choose "Sort by" and option "By Date".

I don't know if other users know the download flies have been reduced in size.

Keep on asking... ;-) But I don't know about it.
 
So what size are the files when uploaded to Flicker?

Check Flickr FAQs for file size limits:

Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 21, 2014, 9:35:51 PM9/21/14
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Despite the flak you are getting from others, i am trying this now thank you for getting back with useful info. I reserve the right to give you flak later if it doesn't work :P

Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 21, 2014, 9:47:37 PM9/21/14
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Also see how we are losing people from Pano to a yahoo service shouldn't google see that that migrating everything google to the G+ platform is not really wanted. Pano is a great community of like minded people with only a small amount of twits where as Yahoo's flikr is just full of twits and doesn't work with GE or GM. But i am willing to give up GE/GM cause of G+ integration on all google products. Gonna miss you guys! ;-|

Roger Heath

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Sep 21, 2014, 10:20:09 PM9/21/14
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Tomas - here's a screen shot of the file folder with some of my downloaded images from Panoramio. I'm 100% certain all were 1MG - 2MB in file size when they were uploaded. It's in my memory that anything smaller was often rejected as being too small for Panoramio. The files range in size from 1.1MB down to 82kb with many under 500kb. I have no answers. I don't know if these are going to be legible.



On Sunday, September 21, 2014 6:27:15 PM UTC-7, Tomas K☼h☼ut wrote:


On Monday, September 22, 2014 3:03:34 AM UTC+2, Roger Heath wrote:
Hello Tomas - In the past when I downloaded my Panoramio portfolio [982 images at the time] I saw that image file sizes had been reduced anywhere from 200kb to 800kb. All images were uploaded at 1.5MB to 2MB.

That's strange. Can you reproduce it and give me an example of "shrinked" photo? Are you sure original size was bigger?
One thing that is great on Panoramio (and in fact, it was one of the reasons I decide to use it as my photo site) is that you can get out from Panoramio exactly the same file as you put in.
 
All file names are based on the title of the image not the Panoramio number, and of course, the files are alphabetical based on title name.

There is nothing like "fixed order" in the set of the files in any folder. You can reorder the files according couple of keys. One key is file date. If you are on Windows, extract all photos from zip archive into one folder. Right click at some empty space of that folder workspace and context menu  shall appear with command "Sort by". Choose "Sort by" and option "By Date".

I don't know if other users know the download flies have been reduced in size.

Keep on asking... ;-) But I don't know about it.
 
So what size are the files when uploaded to Flicker?

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Sep 22, 2014, 4:00:38 AM9/22/14
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Roger, I forget one important thing... these photos were on the deleted account, so I cannot check them until account is recovered.

But still... more reasonable explanation is - you either don't remember what was original file size, or - by mistake - you've uploaded resized version of your photos (most of photo editing SW can resize/resample whole set of photos on one or two mouse clicks). I cannot believe Panoramio has changed photo size only for you.

Wim Constant

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Sep 22, 2014, 6:28:59 AM9/22/14
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Hi, Tomas,

These three photos were mapped in Panoramio, but not selected for GE

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13244112

Uploading from the Take-out to Flickr leaves the unmapped on Flickr   ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/101861343@N04/ )
I only tested a few phots so far, so it is possible that this is a coincidence.
I don't know.

The three next photos on my Flickr account come from the same Take-out and were mapped on Panoramio AND selected for GE.
As you can see, they were also mappen on Flickr.

Panoramio ID's of these photos:


Greetings,

Wim


Op maandag 22 september 2014 00:57:25 UTC+2 schreef Tomas K☼h☼ut:

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Wim, explanation is simple:

On Monday, September 22, 2014 12:28:59 PM UTC+2, Wim Constant wrote:
Thes three photos were mapped in Panoramio, but not selected for GE

These photo do not have GPS location in EXIF either. You had to map these photos manually on Panoramio.
Flickr cannot find location in photo -> not mapped on Flickr.
 

Uploading from the Take-out to Flickr leaves the unmapped on Flickr   ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/101861343@N04/ )
I only tested a few phots so far, so it is possible that this is a coincidence.
I don't know.

The three next photos on my Flickr account come from the same Take-out and were mapped on Panoramio AND selected for GE.
As you can see, they were also mappen on Flickr.

Panoramio ID's of these photos:



These photos have GPS location within EXIF metadata.

paulosbrumbos

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Sep 22, 2014, 9:27:57 AM9/22/14
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Ive just mass downloaded all of my photos ( 1194 in total ), through Google Takeout. 2 ZIP files, 1 @ 2.07gb and another at 167mb.

really easy actually.

Wim Constant

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Sep 22, 2014, 9:30:00 AM9/22/14
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Thanks, Tomas,

In that case it has little use to download a Take-out.
I think half of my photos were manually mapped on Panoramio.
As far as I can remember were the three other photos also manually mapped.
In my archive there are no GPS location data on these photos.

Strange!

Greetings, Wim





Op maandag 22 september 2014 13:45:06 UTC+2 schreef Tomas K☼h☼ut:

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Sep 22, 2014, 9:45:41 AM9/22/14
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Wim to close your case:
if you download photo manually using "Download photo" link on each photo page, you recieve modified photo (not exactly same as you have uploaded). Photo itself does not looks changed, but EXIF is modified: Your Panoramio photo title and GPS location goes there.

But you have to "download" your gallery one by one photo. :((( Or at least photos not mapped (which can be easily selected from bulk download via Takeout).


Dne pondělí, 22. září 2014 15:30:00 UTC+2 Wim Constant napsal(a):

Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 22, 2014, 2:20:52 PM9/22/14
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Not had a chance to read back through my thread but i will do it tonight but see the size problems also. This file is a stitch of 4 14.4mp images and it's 671kb? Google got some impressive compression on their or they are not giving me the full rez file.

Erhard Bernstein

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Sep 22, 2014, 2:38:31 PM9/22/14
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Dear all, I've noticed the same behaviour.

I both downloaded each picture after I uploaded it, so I have collection of 3255 files named "17384365.jpg". Those files add up to 5.047 GB. I tried Takeout now and got - what a surprise! - 3255 files that add up to 2.353 GB. I didn't figure out yet which files were effected (the few ones that I've checked were not shrunk), but still, the sum of the file sizes is less than half.

I also noticed that the two pictures with special signs in their title were corrupt in Takeout (I replaced them with my own copies before the above comparison). ONly few had the tags associated with them and I've found none with the geo-position - unless those that had them in the first place (some were taken with a GPS festured camera). So, takeout is nice if you don't have any other copy of your files. If you have any other option (for instance, a combination of PhotoSheetPano, Excel and neodownloader does the trick), better use that.

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Dne pondělí, 22. září 2014 20:20:52 UTC+2 Sleipnir's Master napsal(a):

Not had a chance to read back through my thread but i will do it tonight but see the size problems also. This file is a stitch of 4 14.4mp images and it's 671kb? Google got some impressive compression on their or they are not giving me the full rez file.


Check your original photo on Panoramio:
You can download this photo (by Right click -> Save as). Saved file has size 686 112 B. Yes, it is 670 kB. Even for large scaled photo. No wonder - photo has large areas of the same colour without textures, so it possible to make extraordinary compression. But Panoramio (as far as I know) NEVER resamples uploaded photos. It saves binary copies of files you have uploaded.

So crucial question is: do you know exact size of the file you have uploaded? Are you sure about it? It was 2 years ago! Your stitched panorama could be 10 MB in non-compressed TIFF but (in this case) after saving into jpeg file size can be reduced to ~ 0.5 MB without visible degradation.


Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 22, 2014, 4:45:09 PM9/22/14
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There we go. Seems like random size reductions.

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Sep 22, 2014, 5:32:14 PM9/22/14
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Sleipnir's Master:

I see! Now it really looks like a proof of the problem with the takeout. 
I hope you don't have in take-out set/gallery any other photo with same title and proper size. ;-)
Filedate of take-out  version matches your upload date, so I guess they belong together.

Please, don't delete the photo ID 112008229 from Panoramio, I will refer it in error report.

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Dne pondělí, 22. září 2014 20:38:31 UTC+2 Erhard Bernstein napsal(a):

I also noticed that the two pictures with special signs in their title were corrupt in Takeout (I replaced them with my own copies before the above comparison).

Erhard, 
please, can you give example of corrupted titles from Takeout? 
Give us photo ID and title and  more accurate description of what is corrupted (title, photo content, photo is not included in  takeout set...) 

 
ONly few had the tags associated with them and I've found none with the geo-position - unless those that had them in the first place (some were taken with a GPS festured camera). 

That's OK. Comments, tags, location data assigned within Panoramio AFTER photo upload are not subject of take-out.

Roger Heath

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Sep 22, 2014, 5:53:26 PM9/22/14
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Tomas - I double checked and no image downloads the file same size I uploaded. It is very difficult to match images since my files have different ID than the Panoramio which is from the Title. They have been reduced in file size from 50-25% of upload size. If you check the screen shot I posted above, I can confirm that of a couple of hundred only one was uploaded at 750kb, all the rest between 1.1MB - 2.5MB.

Erhard Bernstein

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Sep 22, 2014, 11:48:50 PM9/22/14
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The two pictures are no. 17267392 ("Yo ♥ CHAITÉN") and 61185417 ("Zwei Sonnen ♥♥"). It seems obvious that the special character "♥" is the cause of the problem. The files in the takeout have the correct size, in the file name the "♥" is replaced by a "-" and the file cannot be opened.



Erhard, 
please, can you give example of corrupted titles from Takeout? 
Give us photo ID and title and  more accurate description of what is corrupted (title, photo content, photo is not included in  takeout set...) 



Thats not really a problem, but I have read somewhere in this forum (please don't ask me for precise sources! So much going on here lately ... )  that this were one of the advanage of the takeout ... and for a few püictures, tags have  been included, but for some only.

Diane - No Views

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Sep 23, 2014, 2:06:32 AM9/23/14
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Takeout worked for me after two tries.  I had 7,000 photos on PA.  Also downloaded G+ photos, which had even more.  It took quite awhile to download (up to 15 min.) and when you check wherever you've downloaded, it says "unconfirmed" until it's finished.  At least it did in Windows 7.

Diane - No Views

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Mike, I haven't found a way to bulk upload on NGeo and I suspect it's their way of keeping the site from being full of mediocre shots.  Not that there aren't any (some are mine, lol!), but there's no incentive to post gobs of them one-at-a-time.  500px, you can, though I've never tried more than about 6 at a time.  I have found Flickr kind of chaotic to navigate and organize - maybe it's just me - so I don't think I'll go back to it.  Too time-consuming.  

On Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:40:40 AM UTC-7, MikeFromholt wrote:
My attempt went fine on first try....highly unusual......Now I sit and wait to decided whether I ditch view/panorama or not. I really am tired of Google screwing things up, such as the things they've done with panoramio, and don't like some of the aspects on View. Now I wonder if there's an easy way to load them onto another site(ie:flickr, nat geo)

Mike

millotaurus 1-NO VIEWS

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Sep 23, 2014, 11:12:15 AM9/23/14
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Hi Folks,

I tried to download archive of Pnoramio photos from Google website.

At the end of downloading this info appears:

FAILURE-NETWORK ERROR.

I tried on 3 computers, I did clear the cache and delete cookies and I still can not get those files.

I tried to download only one zip file (2GB) at the time and still without success

Can anyone help me ?


Daniela Brocca

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Sep 23, 2014, 11:22:03 AM9/23/14
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I did not try , but I read  on other posts that  is better not to use IE.

Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 23, 2014, 10:00:52 PM9/23/14
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@ everyone with Download issues

Brower used: Maxthon
Download: 1 archive at a time
IE11 does not work because google hates anything Microsoft
Chrome seems to lag too, Maxthon works fine for me.

Sleipnir's Master

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Sep 23, 2014, 10:05:44 PM9/23/14
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Also can we keep this thread tagged or pinned or somin and update any results we get from the Google Takeout please and thank you. I'd like to see the outcome and my pictures in original format ;) Cheers

Hans Sterkendries

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Sep 24, 2014, 3:48:52 AM9/24/14
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I got 51 archives, 2Gb each. I downloaded one of them with Chrome. Download is slow but works.

I found three major issues:
- titles have a maximum of 50 characters (including the blanks). 
- some pictures have a geolocation embedded in them but in my first archive that was the case for only 110 out of 846 pictures. The apping appears to remain correct, also for the pictures that were snapped to a place.
- Those SAME pictures still have their tags

Which pictures keep their geolocation and tags and which one lose them seems to be completely random. My first archive contained my oldest pictures and back then I didn't map offline. Pictures that were take a few minutes apart and uploaded in the same batch can show a completely different behaviour...

I hope this features get a completely make-over before the plug gets pulled from Panoramio. Google has committed itself to preserving our work and whether they like it or not: the gelocations and tags are part of that.

RainoL

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Sep 24, 2014, 7:37:19 AM9/24/14
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Hi Hans,

I have quite the same difficulties. PhotoSheetPano may help a bit, since you can export the list of photos into a csv or Excel file. These files containin the Panoramio picture id, tags, full title, view count and some other info (but not the latitude / longitude or Exif data).

hvbemmel

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Sep 24, 2014, 8:15:02 AM9/24/14
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There is a map on every photo in photosheetpano, also when there is no data in the exif originally, so the geodata are available in the api

Draken

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I couldn't download my photos (on Chrome).  :–(

Hans Sterkendries

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Did you get the mail with the links? It seems to take some time to create the files, and the download is slower than I expeected but basically it "works".

Draken

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Yes, I received the emails. Three files (2 GB, 2 GB and 1,5 GB) and after some hours (4-5) a failure. I am retrying the whole process. Keep fingers crossed.

df3vi

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Sep 25, 2014, 3:50:14 PM9/25/14
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I would have expected that the take-out would do the same as a bulk download of these photos. What they are doing now makes no sense - as usual...

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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I have a message: one team member is examining this issue.
God new: difference with photo ID 112008229 (Sleipnir's Master) can be reproduced.
But he needs more samples to find the pattern of this behaviour - can anyone give some examples? Hans? Roger? ...?

Sleipnir's Master

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i'll look into it tomorrow or Monday, Most of the older photos I have have since been deleted so i'll have to look into newer ones.

Roger Heath

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Tomas - I deleted my Panoramio account earlier this month so only have the screen shot of the folder above. I know 98% of images were uploaded over 1MB since I thought that was the requirement for Panoramio. The file date is the download date as I was testing the possibilities of closing my account at that time. I would not be using those files to upload to any other site, instead go back to the original versions and upload those.

This whole G+-Views problem is becoming history for me since I only wanted to have my photos on Google Maps and few of the images were chosen. They mostly stayed on Google Earth, which I never use. With the introduction of the new format last year and the difficulties of slides shows in Groups, my interest led to a rapid decline reflecting the decline of views of my images. The positive reinforcement early on of knowing people were clicking to see my images led to disappointment after the new format dropped to about 25% of previous views. 

I won't ever be using Google social sites so see no point in future participation. I use Google Search, Google Maps and Google Translation which are invaluable to me, none of which needs images to be useful.

I had images in brick and mortar galleries and a sold photography, but sometimes a photographer must go to the gallery and retrieve one's work since it has only become shop decoration with little effort by the owner to manage the images in a useful manner!

millotaurus 1-NO VIEWS

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Oct 2, 2014, 1:21:18 PM10/2/14
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I have dowloaded my archive of photos, Do not use Chrome, it does not work, I used Firefox and did notice any problems,

One question-many photos from my archive does not have geotags, although were geotagged and present in GE.
What do You think about it ?

c0l0gne1-Views, no thanks!

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Oct 2, 2014, 2:30:19 PM10/2/14
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All geodata that weren't already written in the EXIF before you uploaded the photos to Panoramio obviously are lost on takeout.
The only possibility to save your photos with geodata intact seems to download each photo individually from the photo page- which is going to take a long time depending on the number of photos.

hvbemmel

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Oct 3, 2014, 12:19:08 AM10/3/14
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The team is working on the take-out as more problems have arisen.

davidcmc58

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Oct 3, 2014, 12:27:29 AM10/3/14
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Shame on the team! What can they do right these days?

Wim Constant

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Oct 3, 2014, 5:33:04 AM10/3/14
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Good question: What can they do right these days?
Simple answer: NOTHING!

Op vrijdag 3 oktober 2014 06:27:29 UTC+2 schreef davidcmc58:

Hans Sterkendries

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Oct 3, 2014, 7:56:29 AM10/3/14
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Looks like they might make a priority of the take-out ;-)


millotaurus 1-NO VIEWS

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Oct 3, 2014, 12:46:30 PM10/3/14
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Would be nice if I will not be forced by Google Team to make geotags for most of my photos again. 
I have about 14.000...
All photos were geotagged in Panoramio - none of them before uploading to Panoramio.
And many geotags vanished during making archives from Google account.

davidcmc58

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Oct 3, 2014, 1:46:55 PM10/3/14
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millotaurus, I totally agree with you but seriously doubt that Google will make life easier for those of us that are not going with the "Google flow" ( the ones do the takeout ). Google has been aggressively and quietly punishing people who are not 100% "Google loyal". For example, I encounter little quirks and kinks when I use IE to edit my Picasa Web Albums but no problem what so ever when Chrome is used. The idea is that If you like one Google product then you MUST embrace ALL Google products and definitely G+. Sorry, I got carried away and put my Google cap on accidentally.......

hvbemmel

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Oct 4, 2014, 1:21:59 AM10/4/14
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Again. The purpose of he takeout is offering the photos as they are in PA, with title (filename) and the Geodata, (doesn´t help much when you have the photos on your harddrive anyway. It´s all about the geodata for me).

Adding to that there is the "problem" of files being smaller as the original files.

So I quote Chris Hawk, the programmer who needs to fix / escalate this take-out. The "two" that are mentioned are the original file and the file Panoramio offers (wants to offer) in the take-out

The difference between the two is that the Takeout image includes additional Panoramio metadata (photo title, geolocation). We don't change the pixels, it's just additional metadata. This does require re-encoding the file, which means we may be removing some additional cruft when we re-encode. I need to figure out exactly what that is. 

So I emphasize: Title and geolocation should be in the file and the team is working on it to make the take-out work again as it is supposed to be. 

Sleipnir's Master

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Oct 4, 2014, 2:11:52 PM10/4/14
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I'm not worried about Geo location data, I remember where I took almost every photo taken. I'm just more interested in getting my files back in one peace. i'm willing to wait though. It's why I've kept fairly quite in the thread. ;) 

At others talking about Geotagged data, if it wasn't there in the first place then why would it be their now? Thought the separate file holding the manually mapped data is in the folder. It's this simple.


"I encounter little quirks and kinks when I use IE to edit my Picasa Web Albums" This I agree with It's only IE google do this too. Wanna see what I mean? Download Maxthon and use IE engine and google products work just fine so there must be some tag in IE10/11 that google picks up on and messes with you like the
"Some new features are not supported in your browser:

  • Select multiple files at once
  • Start mapping photos while we upload them in the background
  • Instantly see the thumbnails of your photos"
  • When trying use pano in IE but if I use browser using the IE engine it works fine. As I have said many times Google hate Microsoft. Why? Cause it's they're biggest rival.
    Though I don't agree that google are gimping takeout, that would be silly on googles part.

Sleipnir's Master

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Nov 15, 2014, 10:16:10 PM11/15/14
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Bump.

Did we get any further with this?

Tomas K☼h☼ut

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Nov 16, 2014, 8:15:42 AM11/16/14
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No.
No more responses from the team (if there is still some team).

Sleipnir's Master

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Nov 16, 2014, 6:40:15 PM11/16/14
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