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Since yesterday Panoramio is available in three more languages; simplified Chinese, Bosnian and Croatian.
We want to thank very much Jing Zhou and Bin Li for the Chinese translation. We are also very grateful to Miron Matijevic and Ana Mazic from Sarajevo for the Bosnian and Croatian version. Great work guys!
We are committed to […]

The Mount Saint Michel is a mythical and mystical place, a small rocky island in Normandy (France) just at one kilometre from the north coast.

Mount Saint Michel is an island just half of the time. In ancient times was connected to the land only via a natural sand bridge which was covered by the […]

This is one of these places that looks stupefying on the satellite image. Laguna Verde (green lake), on the left at the mini-panoramio below, gets green colored everyday between 12-14:00 hours. Despite the colour of both lakes looks pretty the same in the satellite photo, the one on the right is called Laguna Blanca (white […]

Jimmy Kang collected photos of Buddha’s sculptures in South-Eastearn Asia and placed them at Panoramio’s map. See the result at this mini-panoramio and his explanation below:

By Jimmy Kan in Panoramio’s forum
I have been to many countries in South East Asia visiting predominantly temples and noticed that the Buddha images in each country are made differently. […]

Last weekend Panoramio reached half a million photos uploaded. Approximately 400.000 of them geolocated in the place they were taken.
We are very excited watching how the community of people using Panoramio is growing at a this huge speed. The increasing flow of photos is creating every day a more useful way to explore the […]

Thank you very much to all translators for the effort:
Slovak: Tibor Bednár
Dutch: Raoul Grasman and Emmanuel Begerem
Danish: Søren Hellerung
Portuguese (Portugal): Pedro Melo and Alexandre Gonçalves
Lithuanian: Gediminas Vaitkevičius
Romanian: George-Alexandru Marinescu
Japanese: Atsushi Ikeda
Brazilian-Portuguese, Czech, Polish and Chinese translations are comming very soon.
More translations are very welcome, just drop me an e-mail before you start the translation […]