"We have been waiting for almost two years. X-mas is a good date to do it
regards to the Team
bart"
You would think they could still upload photos to google earth on a monthly basis. Why stop doing it even if they are developing a new photo site like views or whatever it's successor is. Not like they have to devote time and effort and resources, it's already all there, just continue as it was with regular updates. I can't see why that needed to stop, all they are doing is annoying the users and encouraging people to go elsewhere. Surely they want to keep users happy to migrate them to the next thing.
I personally think that Google still has a grudge against Panoramio for its community not wanting anything to do with views and are sabatoging Panoramio on purpose by its inactivity(not transferring things to maps or earth for several months). They still trying to formulate one of their "products" to eventually replace Panoramio.