How BP Oil Spill would look near Estonia

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Panoramio Photos Update

Finally took the time to name all my 2008 Panoramio photos:



Here are all Tallinn photos on one map (using PhotoViewer by ☆Tomoaki Ueda☆):



View in PhotoViewer

Google Maps has moved Tallinn base imagery

It's not really news, since it probably happened at least a month ago, but Google Maps has moved Tallinn base imagery ca. 7 meters northeast from it's original position. Here are some examples using Panoramio:




Not a problem for Panoramio, since image thumbnails are pretty big. Wikimapia, on the other hand, is based on precision. It will take a lot of time to fix it.

Strelbickijs Map of Tallinn (1871)

This map of Tallinn was part of Special Map of European Russia created by Ivan Afanasevich Strelbickij between 1865 and 1871. Befor 1918 Tallinn was called Reval (rus: Ревель). Map was printed in 1917.



Full map with Zoom.it


Click on the map to download the original version:

Panoramio Widget ( HTML templates )

On May 10th Panoramio launched Panoramio Widget API. It can be used through HTML templates and through JavaScript API. There are 4 HTML templates: Photo, Slideshow, List and Photo list (basicly Photo and List widgets combined). You can reade more on templates here.

Source code view
<iframe src="http://www.panoramio.com/wapi/template/photo_list.html?tag=harbour&width=500&height=500&list_size=8&position=bottom&bgcolor=%23d3d3d3" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" height="500" scrolling="no" width="500> </iframe>

Widget view (Photo list widget)


You can use 3 options for photo viewing (cannot be used together): user, tag and set (all photos). The tag option is allowed to use only one tag per widget. The other problem with tag option is that it shows only photos from different places, for example, if you use tag Paris, only one photo will be from Paris, France.

Source code view
<iframe style="float: left; margin: 10px;" src="http://www.panoramio.com/wapi/template/list.html?tag=Paris&width=350&height=200&rows=3&columns=4&orientation=horizontal" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" width="350"> </iframe>

Widget view (List widget, tag Paris)


Widget view (List widget, tag Pirita)


There are obviously more photos tagged with Pirita.

HTML templates are only useful if you want to show all your photos or random photos with tags like: sun, sea, forest. Sadly it is impossible to show particular photos or photos from specific places.