Panoramio
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Panoramio: Photos of the World
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Type of site
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Photo sharing |
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| Available in | multilingual |
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| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1,449 (January 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free |
| Launched | October 3, 2005 |
| Current status | Closed |
Panoramio was a geo-located tagging, photo sharing mashup owned by Google. Accepted geo-located tag photos (uploaded to the site could be accessed as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps, with new photos being added at the end of every month. 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 place. The website was available in several languages.
The headquarters of Panoramio were originally located in Zurich; in the office building of Google Switzerland but subsequently were moved to Mountain View, California, USA.
Panoramio commenced in 2005 and officially closed on November 4, 2016.
Panoramio was started in the summer of 2005 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, two Spanish entrepreneurs. It was officially launched on October 3, 2005, and by March 19, 2007, it had archived over 1 million user submitted photographs. Three months later, on June 27, 2007, the number of photos reached two million. After a further four months, on October 25, 2007, the number of archived photos reached five million.
In October 2006, Google began approaches to acquire Panoramio but these were rebuffed. However, on May 30, 2007, Google announced plans to acquire the website, and Panoramio was acquired by Google in July 2007.
Eduardo Manchón left the company in January 2010 to focus on his new project Askaro. He was replaced by Gerard Sanz Viñas. Joaquín Cuenca left the company in May 2010.
As of September 2014, Panoramio was a world community of several million people and was available in 47 languages.
In May 2015, the number of uploaded photos (including deleted objects) exceeded 120 million.
On October 8, 2016, the total number of uploaded photos (as recorded by Panorank) was 94,370,531 by 4,159,004 users, resulting in a total of 75,640,891,592 image views.
On September 16, 2014, it was announced, that Google intended to close Panoramio and migrate it to Google Maps Views. During the migration important Panoramio features, such as "comments", "favorite photographers" and "groups" would disappear.
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