Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

2100 Panoramas

Panoramic Earth now has over 2100 panoramas from around the world. Panoramic image 2100 shows the Steam Vents at the Kilauea Caldera at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island (also known as 'Big Island'), bringing the total number of panoramas from the State of Hawaii to 108.

The global collection of 360° panoramic pictures continues to grow at about 6 panoramas a day from all over the world, so it will not be long before we have to report on image 2200.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Creation of PanoramicEarth.com

Both The London Map and The Hawaii Map used to have their own domains. It has now been decided to create one site to house both these and other tours as they are made. Thus was born PanoramicEarth.com. Soon after this other locations like Oxford in England and the Balearic Island of Mallorca off the South of Spain were also added. The site now attracts around 3,000 visitors a day, and this is growing month by month. New tours are continuing to be added during the coming year. I intend to visit at least 6 cities, probably mostly in Europe, though New York and Las Vegas are also under consideration depending on funds. There is also a possibility of Hong Kong being added to the collection.

One of the beauties of the whole project is that the tours may be used by other websites as embedded content, so don’t be too surprised if you come across the tours in other places and think, “That looks familiar…”. The London, Mallorca and Hawaii tours are also displayed in over 80 other websites as of February 2006. You will know it is a Panoramic Earth tour due to the presence of an acknowledgement sating “Tour by PanoramicEarth.com, powered by MAI Technology” underneath the tour itself.

Panoramic Earth also contains a growing number of European ski resorts using the same principle of panoramic images linked to (in this case) a piste map of the skiing region. There are around 30 listed to date, and the Jungfrau region in Switzerland was photographed extensively in January 2006 and is about to go live on the site. Each tour is also accompanied by local resort information useful for skiers and snow boarders alike.

So, take a browse, let your fingers do the clicking and see what some of these places have to offer.

New Panoramas on Panoramic Earth