Tuesday, March 9, 2010

​Explore the world with Porsche Cayenne and Panoramio API

​Porsche has just released its new Cayenne and with it, a nice web page where you can experience it for yourself.

To create this nice feature Porsche has used Google Maps API to trace your selected route and Panoramio API to serve geo-located photos according to the route you have selected.

We have done the test with a Cayenne S Hybrid driving from Zurich to Zermatt in Switzerland:


The tool allows you to select between 5 Cayenne models and your favourite start and end point. If you are a member of Panoramio’s community you may find there your photos featured. Give it a try by visiting Porsche’s website and clicking at the "Experience yourself" link.
at 2:20 AM

20 comments:

  1. Hi Juraj.
    This specific use of Panoramio Pictures follow Panoramio API policies.
    The name of the photographer is displayed on the images that are shown and if you click there it will bring you to the photo page in Panoramio. For more info check the section Requirements and Terms of Use of the API at http://www.panoramio.com/api
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  2. Gerard, thx for explaining.
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  3. Matthew WaltersMar 9, 2010 05:18 AM
    Interesting use of the API. Only time I'll ever see my shots through a Porsche wing mirror!

    Matthew
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  5. I'm still somewhat unhappy with Gerard's reply. I found a whole bunch of my photos with a first test. Although I finally found the well hidden attribution, I still think this is an infringement on my rights because it is used commercially and it is clearly a derivative of my original. I think, this needs careful reconsideration and some explanation to the Panoramio community. In general I do not have a problem with sharing my photos, but if someone is making money with it I may want my fair share :-)

    Greetings, Lutz
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  7. It is a wonderful thing to know that Porsche Cayenne can fly! :-)
    I was considering to buy a small ultralight plane for hobby, at some point in the future, but now that I know, of course a flying SUV is much much better.

    I publish a lot of aerial photos (the kind that Google Earth "still" accepts :-(, to make a long story short). I "drove" a road in a place where I know I have a certain density of published photos... and voilà, in the rear mirror and on the body of the car, reflected a beatiful aerial landscape.

    How dumb to have taken the pilot licence :-) if I buy a Cayenne I can fly simply with my driving license.

    To be serious: I have nothing against this usage of the photos, but I understand and respect what LutzP says. Anyway this IMHO the price we "pay" for the "free" hosting of thousand (in my case) of photos.

    I can live with it.
    Best regards from snowy Italy and happy driving... opps flying :-)
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  8. This is a complete and perfect rip off. If I would see my photos used on a Porsche (or any other) campaign, I surely will sue them. And if this is Panoramio API policy, I will sue them too.
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  9. I'm going with LutzP, but my suggest is, that the terms of the API are broken. All examples and codes shown on Panoramio's API-page are exactly what I understood on using the API for a static gallery. The way Porsche did is to catch prominent photos and take use of them. There is no gallery... I would be very disapointed, if this will be the future of use to make money with our work. And I would leave, if there is no protection to my uploads against cropping and blending my photos into commercials .
    The links Porsche set to Panoramio and the shown photo is very hidden and short shown. Nobody is able to check this and follow the link for more.

    Please Gerard do improve the API-terms in mind of the shown examples and make the photograph able to protect his work off commercials misuse.

    Greetings, Eike

    BTW 8 Responces announced, but only 6 can be read... :-(
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  10. To prove the Porsche missuse quoted from the API Terms:

    The API provides photos in six possible versions: mini square, square, thumbnail, small, medium (default) and original. Each mini square-, square-, thumbnail- or small-size version of a photo must link to a medium or original sized version of the same photo. Each medium or original sized version must link to the photo page on the Panoramio.com domain (for example, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/532693). The link should be under the image itself. No more than 50 instances of photos can be displayed on one single webpage.

    Additionally, every time a medium or original photo is used, you must also show the Panoramio logo directly under or directly next to the photo, as well as display "author: name", where "name" is linked to the author's Panoramio photos homepage (for example, http://www.panoramio.com/user/1429589). You must also display the text "Photos provided by Panoramio are under the copyright of their owners" under Panoramio Photos"

    Please protect our rights!

    Greetings, Eike
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  11. Nicolas MertensMar 12, 2010 02:21 AM
    Very clever. But I agree with LutzP. And as I said elsewhere, with the API, Panoramio has become a treasure chest of royalty-free photos. I don't agree anymore with this and I have removed all my photos from my galleries. In time, I will ask Panoramio to delete my "account." For the moment, I trust that the removal of my photos will result in being removed also from the websites that use them.
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  12. ...well, I was under the impression, that thjs is a moderated blog. I'm wondering, why the legitimate concerns of the users are being ignored here. Maybe time has come to start a thread in one of the forums.

    anybody around and reading?

    Greetings Lutz
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  13. Yes, I'm watching this...
    BTW On my first stepp I reduced my pictures from >900 to ~600.

    Greetings, Eike
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  14. Yes, I agree, this violates the terms of use of the Panoramio API. The photographer is not protected and in fact Panoramio seems proud of the ability of commercial users (Porche) to avoid that annoying requirement to credit the photograhers. "Go ahead, rip off the photographers; it's OK because you are Porche!" Instead, they (Panoramio) should be enforcing the correct use of the API.

    Porche needs to change their application to honour the API agreement. And Panoramio needs to be more proactive in protecting their community of users, instead of being flattered that high-profile companies like Porche do what ever they want.
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  15. thank you very much :)
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  17. This is very clearly a breach of the API terms and conditions.

    Porche is creating a derivative artistic work from our images and altering them by cropping.
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  18. Es fehlen wieder 3 Kommentare... :(
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  19. that is montaged picture. the only view of mounten is from town zermatt, but you can not drive in to with any vechile. the idea is good , but ....
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  20. Hello there.

    Thank you very much... but I didn't find 'Explore yourself' there...

    :)
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