I just made a small walk in St Peter square in Rome and watched the panoramic views of Alhambra from Albaicín. Did you ever watch the faces of the US presidents in Mount Rushmore so close?. There is a never ending list of places to explore: the roofs of Lisbon from Santa Justa, Chicago from Hancock's tower by night, the sights of Stockholm from Katarinahissen, the Red Square of Moscow, Brandenburg gate in Berlin, the white marbles of Taj Mahal or the Sydney Opera House, just to mention a few examples. Take care, I am already addicted.
You will find the link "look around" only for photos in areas with high density of images. The most interesting places to "look around" are squares, towers or any location where people took photo in many different directions. Having many overlapped photos means that you can move very far away from the starting point, almost like a real walk.
If you want to get a "look around" link under your photos or you would like to have this experience in your favorite place, that's easy. Just go to that place and start shooting photos in every direction. Photos should overlap so the matching system can work and using a tripod should help to get matches. If you prefer to move while taking photos, later it would be possible to follow your path. Photos of details get embedded inside wide perspectives and allow a nice zoom-in effect. Depends very much on the place, but around 10-20 photos should be enough to get the "look around". The link will not appear immediately, the system will be initially refreshed every two weeks, but it will get faster after some time.
Simplemente, genial.
ReplyDeleteOs felicito por los pasos certeros que estáis dando. Y seguro que seguiréis pisando fuerte, tras la salida del plugin para google earth sobre navegadores. ¿Podremos disfrutar de navegación 3D en entornos simulados a partir de coincidencias en sus puntos (como me comentaba wolo)?
(Por cierto, y en otro orden de cosas, que hoy estuve ojeando las apis de google y ví una para incrustar un botón de upload al cliente de Picasa. A partir de ese botón pueden subirse automáticamente fotos seleccionadas directamente a páginas webs... Siento insistir en la compatibilidad picasa-panoramio, pero sería un adelanto).
Seguro que sí.
Un saludo.
What are the most efficient ways to add photos to Panoramio:
ReplyDelete1) with the aid of a GPS device such as a GPS-enabled camera
2) without a GPS device
I found this interesting...
ReplyDeletehttp://openphotovr.jottit.com/re_panoramio
Cool feature! However a bit confusing to use. :-)
ReplyDelete"We just released a new feature in Panoramio"? ?
ReplyDeleteYou ought to be ashamed of yourself!
You are second.
The first is Vladimir Slepnev - http://openphotovr.jottit.com/re_panoramio
Great Idea!
ReplyDeleteAnother one: The Tomb Raider scene: a large tree growing out of a temple of Ta Prohm in Angkor:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.panoramio.com/photo/3660960
This one is interesting, for its revolves around a single entrance from hugely different viewpoints. Not all available images are displayed in the thumbnails tab all the time, so you have to search a bit in the look around window [b]and[/b] use sometimes the thumbnails to find all images:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2272917
Felicidades. Esta es una de las mejores cosas que he visto nunca.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. This is one of the best things I've ever seen
ReplyDeleteI loved the feature, I'm amazed by the number of places already have this new feature (especially compared to Microsoft's Photosynth).
ReplyDeleteMy only problem is that maybe due to my internet connection and the fact that I live in Taiwan, each photo takes quite a while to download, maybe it's possible to add a preload feature?
psst! don't tell anyone, but it looks a bit like microsoft's 3D bird's eye view in Live maps! BUT BETTER!
ReplyDeleteDid you take this from http://openphotovr.org ? If so, it would be nice to give credit where it's due...
ReplyDeleteHola,
ReplyDeleteGreat feature Eduardo. Thanks a lot.
Jose
WOW! impresionante pero, como lo hacéis? alguna especificación técnica sobre en que lenguaje o que algoritmo?
ReplyDeleteGive Credit Where Credit is Due:
ReplyDeletehttp://openphotovr.jottit.com/re_panoramio
It is very very cool. You must have some very good software to do it... :-)
ReplyDeleteDid you make the software for it yourself or did you use some third party software?
Maravilloso!
ReplyDeleteEspero que sea integrado tambien a Google Earth!
Wonderful!
I hope it gets integrated with Google Earth as well!
I simply LOVE it! Thanks a lot, very nice job done here.
ReplyDeleteWill it be available in... Google Earth?
ReplyDeleteThis feature was the final reason for me to register in this project.
ReplyDeleteGood job.
wooow !, felicidades al equipo de Panoramio.
ReplyDeleteMuy bien Edu, eso es innovar... ahora estaría bien que se pudieran grabar videos de las panoramicas que se vayan ofreciendo con esta nueva funcionnalidad.
Saludos, nos vemos en Barcelona pronto.
David
Fantastic, incredible, awesome... I could spent too much time using that new feature. Congratulations!
ReplyDeletePo prostu świetne kocham was postaram się porobić parę fotek i przetestować ten system :)
ReplyDeleteSimply great love you try to porobić few photos and test this system:)
Hola: Me parece una idea acertada. Me recuerda mucho al producto Microsoft Photosynth. He hecho una reseña en mi blog y os incluyo algunas críticas constructivas.
ReplyDeleteHi, I think it's a great idea. It remember too much the MSN's product called Photosynth. I wrote a review in my blog where I added some constructive criticisms.
http://geotecnocom.blogspot.com/2008/06/360-de-mosaico-fotografico.html
¿Tenéis pensado exportarlo a Google Earth? Seguro que allí se obtiene una experiencia de uso mucho más realista, mucho más 3D.
Are you thinking to export GE? I am sure there it would become a richer and realistic experience. A real 3D, I mean.
Muchos ánimos.
Best wishes.
Please forgive my naivity as I might have missed something, but stitching panoramas is quite an old thing and standard in photoshop. How is this new? There are lots of stiched pans on here already(?), P
ReplyDeletegreat !! faster than photosynth..and no need to install (^_^)
ReplyDeleteEduardo
ReplyDelete¡Muchas gracias por su asistancia! me gusto esta adicón muy servicial.
Felicidades Panoramio, cada día nos sorprende más.
ReplyDeleteVery, very nice feature. I saw a demo of Microsoft Photosynth a few weeks ago, it was alike. This is the best thing I ever seen.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations.
Bravo!
ReplyDeletePanoramio is now more than a nice place to share panorama photos, compiled with a tool such as Auto Stitch. So, perhaps I will start taking such shots and see if the magic happens to any of my photo spots! ;-)
wonderful!
ReplyDeleteAmazing... in the pure tech vision - how do you calculate the images position and relationship from one to another? Some kind of image recognition?
ReplyDeleteCongratulation, very interesting idea!
ReplyDeleteThis is quite similar to m$'s photosynth, but much faster :) Good job google!
ReplyDeletethats really a cool feature! hope the look-around-places will become more soon .... and I hope people will load up more detail-pics now, so you can really explore far places!
ReplyDeleteunfortunately here it doesn't word in Firefox. only in MSIE.
ReplyDeleteIs the meshing of photos done automatically? Can I manually place shots in that might be hard for an automated system to add in. I want to have pictures that are the same place but historical. Since they document change I would have to manually match the photos into the contemporary collage.
ReplyDeleteWow Panoramio team, this feature is really innovative and WORKING. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteI've just discovered this feature whilst changing the position of one of my photos from Piazza San Marco, Venezia. This is yet another stunning innovation from Panoramio. I congratulate you, Eduardo...
ReplyDeleteMy technical mind asks, however, "How is this done?" Is there an automatic image/data matching algorithm that compares and 'geo-syncs' the individual images? That's my guess.
However you do it, well done.
Andrew.
dear panoramio people,
ReplyDeleteit would be a feat to create a dedicated tab to the look-around feature next to the "tags" tab in the opening screen.
best regards to all !
michael
I express my admiration for those who glued virtual panoramas - very quality and very accurately!
ReplyDelete(For moderators - sorry about my previous anonymous comment)
As stated above, I agree this is one of the best things i've seen on the internet. Well done indeed.
ReplyDeleteCool feature!!! I discovered it today, it's great!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat happens with “Look Around” tag? You should remain under each photo links, because that is impossible to know whether it is elected this category. And easier for consideration of such photos. Greetings
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteJust a quick query about the length of time it takes for Look Around to 'build' a panoramic view.
I think I saw it mentioned that Look Around would take about two weeks to identify and then build the navigate views. However I have upload just over 50 images for one geo-spot - with the first batch of 24 images being selected for Google Earth on or before or just before the 26th January 2009, yet there has been no 'Look Around' link added to any of the photo pages yet.
Is it possible to give an indication of how long it is taking Look Around to build these views at the moment?
Many thanks.
muy buena idea!
ReplyDeleteI really like this "new" feature! i find it very interesting :)
É o Google sempre na frente, por isso é o site mais visitado do mundo. Parabenizo a toda equipe Google por este maravilhoso recurso que poderemos agora mostrar as nossas paisagens com mais riquesa de imagens.
ReplyDeleteHow i use it,
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