That's the sad thing of the cloud. Back in the old days, you could just run applications for as long as you wanted. I'm wondering how long it will take until everybody sees this.
Looks like it has already been archived by Archive Team, good job ! <a href="http://tracker.archiveteam.org/panoramio/" rel="nofollow">http://tracker.archiveteam.org/panoramio/</a>
It's interesting to read this blog post from Eduardo Machon (Panoramio co-founder) about the day they said no to google - 1 year before they bought Panoramio.<p>(In Spanish)
<a href="https://eduardomanchon.com/el-d%C3%ADa-que-rechazamos-una-oferta-de-compra-de-google-cae425bc763" rel="nofollow">https://eduardomanchon.com/el-d%C3%ADa-que-rechazamos-una-of...</a>
Takeout is available (<a href="https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout" rel="nofollow">https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout</a>). There's similar modern service for geotagged photos called Mapillary where you can migrate photos from Panoramio <a href="http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/10/10/migrating-from-panoramio-a-new-home-for-geotagged-photos.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/10/10/migrating-from-p...</a>
This was an invaluable source for finding interesting areas close to you or to your travel destination. I'm already missing it; the Flickr world map is garbage compared to what Panoramio was.<p>I'd love to see this resurrected somehow.
Really sad to see this. In the UK and Ireland there is a superb community project, Geograph (<a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geograph.org.uk/</a>), which collects geotagged photos and makes them available under an open licence. For example, I've integrated it into my bike routeplanner at <a href="http://cycle.travel/map" rel="nofollow">http://cycle.travel/map</a> so that you can see photos of a trail before riding it, so you know what sort of surface to expect. Panoramio was the nearest to a worldwide equivalent.<p>(There's Mapillary, of course, but their base API access is $99/month. OpenStreetView looks promising but it's early days for them.)
Oh, that makes me quite sentimental. All the time I wasted on Google Earth exploring lonely islands, Antarctica, and Kamchatka volcanoes... Panoramio, you will be missed.
Was this the only source of geotagged photos that show in Google Maps?<p>Since time ago, I added semantic web tags to my photo album, hoping they'd then appear on the public map. They already have location data in EXIF tags.<p>Nothing happened. I don't know of any site that indexes images in this way.
I was sorry to see this, although the writing has been on the cards for Panoramio for some time.<p>It seems a really odd decision by Google, panoramio had a strong community which may well not migrate to the alternatives that google are suggesting and it provided a load of useful information for other Google services.<p>Anyone know of decent similar alternatives? I know one large contributor who's moving off to Flickr, but is not very impressed by their mapping setup.
Ah man, knew this one was coming one day. But you know what Google Local Guides is awesome. If you're a fan of Panoramio go sign up and become a Local Guide.
Google is really good on killing services.
If it's does not make an incredible amount of money, they just kill it.<p>They are not dumb, of course, so this apparently seems to be a good strategy.