Today, we're taking a first step toward making that possible, which is why I'm happy to announce our new iPhone app. You can download it now from the App Store. Our team is working hard on an app for Android-powered devices, so stay tuned for that!
The philosophy behind the app is to keep it simple: sign in (only the first time), pick a photo from your device or take a new photo, and upload it straight to Panoramio. If available, the geoposition will be automatically set, and you can optionally add a title to the photo.
This is the first time Panoramio is releasing a mobile app, so we want to hear your comments. Please send feedback, feature requests and bugs to iphone@panoramio.com.
Excellent app, I have always had amazing photos to upload taken from different amazing parts of the world only to be stopped by the complexity of the old procedure. Well done.
ReplyDeleteReally looking forward to trying this, I'll just have to wait until I can get a good photo on my iPhone. I hope this doesn't increase the work load on the reviewers or degrade the quality of the pictures that make it through to GE.
ReplyDeleteDo you now have an API for uploading photos? When your iPhone-app announcement went up, I got a flood of mail from your users telling me about it, suggesting that I should finally (after all these years) be able to write a plugin for Adobe Lightroom so that Lightroom users can export their photos to their Panoramio accounts.
ReplyDeleteWhen I asked Panoramio about an API a long time ago, your response was somewhat baffling, implying that you had never heard of someone geoencoding their own photos. Maybe your view has expanded since?
I would think that Lightroom's demographics (professional photographers, and serious non-pros) and their much-higher-than-average-quality photographs would be something Panoramio would want to court.
If you open up an API, I will write a plugin for Lightroom that uses it.
Genial trabajo !, ya lo estabamos esperando, a ver como afecta a la subida de fotos, seguro que los usuarios tendran mucha más facilidad para geoposicionar las fotos... más fácil imposible.
ReplyDeleteGood job!
Saludos,
Very precarious and complicated check the photos of the competition. Before it was much easier.
ReplyDeleteI upoaded two photos with the iPhone apps. I am sure the photos has geotags since it was taken on my iPhone (and it shows on Picasa), but the Panoramio app. did not place them on the map automatically. I had to do it manually on the web. Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteWe'll try a couple more pictures.
I think this is a sad thing for Panoramio. I have never seen any camera - even the best DSLR - that had a screen that was adequate to evaluate the photos for upload. Now here is a mechanism for uploading from an inferior camera with no way to evaluate the worth of the image before doing so. So sad.
ReplyDeleteThis is all fantastic, but why don't you repair the old upload interface? I've uploaded a lot of images, but you guys lost them during the upload process (the only thing that remains after uploading is an corrupt internet page with white thumbnails).
ReplyDeleteDon't fix it when it's not broken!
I take thousands of photos on a two-week trip, then spend days editing them to ensure only the best are put forwards for Panoramio and hence google earth. I crop, level, sharpen, stitch and adjust until I am happy. What a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteMatthew
Wow. There are already way too many lousy quality photos on Panoramio! I can only expect this app to bring the quality of Panoramio even further down. Too bad - RIP, Panoramio.
ReplyDeleteyou better get your work done... since 2 month no new photos are updated so why uploading to a site thats abadoned by its developers.... :(
ReplyDeleteWhat an innovative idea!
ReplyDeleteI have an iPhone and the camera is hopeless, so hopefully these uploads will not feature prominently on the world map.
I think this is a sad thing for Panoramio. I have never seen any camera - even the best DSLR - that had a screen that was adequate to evaluate the photos for upload. Now here is a mechanism for uploading from an inferior camera with no way to evaluate the worth of the image before doing so. So sad.
ReplyDeleteI am not so sure this is a good development. The team could be literally flooded with low quality photographs, and the review process could be dramatically slowed down. In my humble opinion there could have been more useful issues to work on... but anyway let's wait and see what the brave new world of iphotos will bring to Panoramio.
ReplyDeleteIt has been 2 months and i dont see my photos on google earth, this is very frustrating... can anyone help with this problem the photos are selected, approved ID number are in the range.
ReplyDeleteHello dear manager. I've got a bad problem and please help me. when uploading my photos I don't see the part to enter the photo's profile. I found out this is necessary to take part in competition. what's the matter and what should I do? in forum to below address I asked about it:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256621#256621
I love this app! What a great way to get the most worldwide photo coverage. Yeah really great photos are....well, great, but I mostly use the panoramio app in google earth to find interesting locations to visit. so the more people uploading lots of pics, the more old ruins, abandoned cemeteries, waterfalls, and awesome overlooks I can visit!
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
I think it's fascinating that people think that it's a waste of time to do something carefully simply because someone else may do the same thing differently. This is a great development - I've happily contributed using my iPhone and enjoy the process very much. In the future, once a significant database of photos develops, there's no reason why fresh mechanisms for parsing qualitatively cannot be developed.
ReplyDeleteEsperando que pronto se haga realidad también para móviles con S.O. Symbian.
ReplyDeleteSoy un usuario que gusta de Panoramio, de niño siempre quería como una mezcla de mi mapa de viaje con un album fotográfico personal, así que ojalá pronto pueda utilizar en algún viaje para llevar mis recuerdos a Panoramio con mi Nokia 5800.
Saludos desde Antofagasta de Chile.
Shame they picked a mobile app for the I-phone just because it's the latest thing, as it still has one of the most usless cameras built on a modern phone !!!! Its about time people with Symbian o s and decent camers on there phones (Nokia,sony etc) were acknowledged !!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to hear that, really. Finally I will be able to enjoy panoramio on my cell phone
ReplyDeleteMagnificas fotos. Fabulosas. muito obrigado amiogod.
ReplyDeleteI guess this means you have some kind of API going internally, _please_ share this publicly so that we could have an export plugin in Lightroom (See comment 8 from Jeffrey). I love Lightroom, and I really dislike Flickr, please don't force me to use it.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
I couldn't agree more with those who worry about the quality of images suffering with indiscriminate use of the iPhone app. However, with the iPhone 4, the quality will be much better than for typical phone cameras, plus the fact the iP4's display does offer presentation quality for judging what is acceptable. Still, unless Panoramio fixes the problem of stripping the GPS metadata (when the image is chosen from the camera roll), this app is practically useless. Please fix it ...
ReplyDeletewe blackberry users are also willing to upload photos :-P
ReplyDeleteWhy I just now am discovering this again I don't know but am thankful and excited.
ReplyDeleteThanks
The app is a lousy piece of garbage that does not work. It fails to upload any GPS/location data, and therefore defeats the purpose. It hasn't been updated in over 3 years, which speaks to someone asleep at the switch, or not caring.
ReplyDeleteThe iPhone platform, and the camera in particular, have improved significantly. It's unfortunate that Panoramio isn't keeping up with the improvements in these technologies. Same goes for the iPad camera.
Is anyone listening?