The sphere-viewing feature should have been added to Panoramio for the millions of users already loyal to that service for up to 9 years already.
Sign the petition:
Google – Keep The Panoramio Community Alive!
http://www.change.org/p/google-larry-and-sergey-google-keep-the-panoramio-community-alive?recruiter=603057&utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
Statement by the Panoramio Founders:
Open Questions about the Panoramio Migration
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1shsQri7vQs3uZr5wO6vH0tEhWOBoo9H8gamayDpdh-8/edit
Was it necessary to obscure 90% of Panoramio views after the transfer?
(Update: apparently Panoramio views should transfer, so they simply must not have done so yet.)
Will Panoramio photos have their priorities similarly discounted in after the transfer?
(To clarify, the question was whether Views photos will trump Panoramio photos in Google Earth, since photos seem to get more engagement in Views.)
So many questions remain.
#Views #googlemaps #googlemapsviews
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Wonderful!
+Jeff Sullivan when I talked about it to the people from Google at #photokina they were saying that Panoramio was staying alive ...
+Maciej Markiewicz Apparently that rumor turns out not to be true. As of September 19 according to Brian McClendon. Vice President, Google Maps:
"Panoramio is built on old infrastructure that can no longer be maintained. We chose to rebuild it, and we did so in Views."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/panoramio-questions-support/R5toz0EAB8k
As it says in the petition, written by the founders,
No reply was possible in the closing announcement in the Panoramio forum. Users don’t like the scary migration plan through Google Drive with two steps. Users got broken promises of keeping the site alive just few days ago. Some core features for the community are going to be lost (faves updates, comments…). No wonder why Panoramio users don’t want to migrate to Views, the migration as planned will kill the Panoramio Community. We wrote a detailed document “Open questions about the Panoramio migration” with our take.
Sign this petition to ask Google to keep the Panoramio Community alive.
They tried to fool us +Maciej Markiewicz
They eventually told the truth in this interview: http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-axe-panoramio-photo-sharing-service-move-to-views/
I have the feeling they wanted to keep the secret for a longer time, but too many people seemed to have seen the bigger picture.