Panoramio
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Panoramio was a geo-located tagging, photo sharing mashup active between 2005 and 2016. Photos uploaded to the site were accessible as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps. The site's goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users had taken at that location. Panoramio was acquired by Google in 2007. In 2009 the website was among the 1000 most popular websites worldwide.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Panoramio
- Website.logo
- Panoramio logo.svg
- Website.screenshot
- Panoramio screenshot.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 250px
- Website.caption
- Panoramio homepage
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Photo sharing
- Website.registration
- Free
- Website.language
- Multilingual
- Website.num_users
- 4.1 million
- Website.owner
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Panoramio is no longer available
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Further developments
- Closure
- Organization
- Others
- See also
- References
- External links
Panoramio was a geo-located tagging, photo sharing mashup active between 2005 and 2016. Photos uploaded to the site were accessible as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps. The site's goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users had taken at that location. Panoramio was acquired by Google in 2007. In 2009 the website was among the 1000 most popular websites worldwide.
Panoramio was launched in 2005, and closed on November 4, 2016, although the layer in Google Earth was available until January 2018. Image source URLs are still available.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panoramio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.