I find it difficult to see the pictures I have selected for upload to Google Earth.
When I open Google Maps, my pictures are shown in the left part of the window. Miserable compared to the old Panoramio window. I can’t now tell people how they can see my (labelled) travel pictures. Names of places are not shown for the pictures, but names of advertisers on those places!
And the pictures shown are now not simply those I have selected for upload and publishing. I see a lot of bad pictures taken from the total picture collection I was stupid enough to let Google store in their cloud.
The menu system is miserable. (Web-based software lack both the standard menu line and right-click menus) I hope Google can give us control over which pictures to publish.
How can I now upload 500 geotagged pictures from 50 places I visited this year? I saw the clickable word Upload, but when I clicked on it, it simply vanished.
Don’t tell me to mark each of those 50 places on the map when the 500 pictures are much more accurately geotagged!
Thank you for reaching out, @OlavN .
You post is getting a How-tos label. It might be helpful for someone with a hint to share it with you.
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the best practice is to post pictures while you are on the spot you are posting about. Collecting pictures for an year and then posting all of them at once is not an option for a reason. Keep in mind that best contributions are the ones that are posted while being the freshest in your mind.
When I come home after travelling, I select the good pictures and edit them: Crop, lighten shadows, sharpen, improve the colors, straighten out perspective distorsions etc. I also find the positions for the 10% of the cases where my camera failed to get the GPS. The log Google makes for my movements is too coarse and incomplete. When I traveled around in Nortern Italy this summer, my trip to Venice was not noticed. A GPS logger app on my phone would be needed for proper position logging.
If you ask people to upload for specific places, the GPS data in the EXIF data should take precedence, so that the place the user is forced to indicate is disregarded.
Please don’t destroy the Panoramio system quality because you have many sloppy customers - even if they have freshness in their minds.