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Good news this week for a young Spanish start up – Panoramio, who find themselves part of the new Geographic Web layer in Google Earth.
Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, launched Panoramio, a Google Maps mashup for geo-positioning photos, back in October 2005. It’s a photo sharing free service – up to 2 Gb, with a geolocation mapping service twist.

‘Geographic Web’ is a browsable layer in Google Earth,
“As of today you will see new icons -— the Wikipedia globe, the Panoramio star, or the information “i” of the Google Earth Community – so just click on any of them to explore information about a place” from the Google blog

“The layer of Panoramio inside Google Earth’s “Geographic web” is not updated inmediately, it will take some time until recently updated photos are visible there. You can see all photos uploaded to Panoramio inside Google Earth updated in real time at this page” Eduardo Manchón

Panoramio’s involvement in the Geographic Web along with Wikipedia and the Google earth Community looks like a sure fire guarantee of widespread deployment in the future for a site that’s made an effort to nurture an international community adding language translations regularly, with Russian and Korean included only last week.

via googleblog

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