Panoramio is a Google Maps mashup that lets you map your photos. It also lets you check out foreign, and local, destinations and images that others have submitted. With Panoramio, users store up to 2GB worth of digital images in their free account, and pinpoint the exact location they were taken, care of Google Maps. This could be a great way to walk your friends through a recent hiking trip in Arizona, or a European vacation route, or quite simply your path to work. I love these kinds of social mashups. They provide a ton of insight into geographical locations, and make me think more about locations that I might want to check out one day, and reminisce about locations that I once was. Not too many places are listed at the moment, but once this catches on, I'm sure its going to provide a lot of great content.
Tags: geography, google maps, GoogleMaps, locations, map, mashup, panoramio, photos, pictures
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Subscribe to commentsGregorDec 11th 2006 10:51AM
Check out also the http://triptracker.net site which allows you to create travel blogs on Google maps.
David S.Dec 11th 2006 1:06PM
First off, I'm TOTALLY biased, as I'm putting together a similar Google Maps mashup
People I've talked to wanted to add their existing Blog posts to a common map, rather than upload photos to yet another service. And what about videos? Audio tracks? Government sites? I'm still in Alpha mode (536 entires from 11 different web sites), adding downtown Toronto locations. For instance you can see photoblog pictures, videos, and the set of
votes for nicest and ugliest buildings in Toronto at:
http://www.wholemap.com/map/index.php?pin=SART-281
omicronDec 11th 2006 1:12PM
You can do something similar with http://maps.live.com collections, which supports pictures, links, and descriptions on each place. Check out this collection of places along the US continental divide: http://local.live.com/?cid=F441765F3B3306E4!287 There are more collections at http://www.passthepoi.com
Hitesh SawlaniDec 11th 2006 3:31PM
Photos added to panoramio get added on google earth, thats how i found out about it, just saw random photos popping up!