Saturday, May 29, 2010

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

Friday, May 28, 2010

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.

Monday, May 24, 2010

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:

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Webcam

Controllable webcam from www.overall.ee


Click on Read More to see the webcam:

Saturday, May 15, 2010

What happens if sea level will rise?

Sea level rise of 14 m

via flood.firetree.net

Sea level rise of 30 m

via Neogeo.lv

Unsurprisingly Lasnamäe and Nõmme are safe. Upper Town of the Vanalinn should also be safe, since it's 50 meters above sea level (people who made those maps probably did't know that).

Friday, May 14, 2010

Panaramio Tools


Tools by Andre Speek
Recent Upload Browser for Panoramio. Link
Random Gallery Viewer. Link
Thumbnail post creator. Link

Photo Viewers
PhotoViewer Version 2.17 by ☆Tomoaki Ueda☆. Link
My Panoramio Photo Version 0.46E by junk0128. Link

View Counters
p-track by mrg-design. Link
PhotoSheetPano by Pierre Dablon. Link
PhotoTrack by Ryan Calhoun. Link (doesn't work any more)