Find and View Recent Panoramas with Ease

Today we made some changes to Panoramic Earth which will make viewing the recent panoramas added to the site easier to find and follow. On the homepage there are now links to the recent images, displaying them as either a list of recent panoramas or as thumbnail previews of the pictures. These links are found at the top of the 8 most recent panoramas shown on the homepage (the link here will take you to our thumbnail previews):


One will take you to a Photo View table with thumbnails of the images and, unlike before, you can easily browse back through the site additions right to the very first panoramas (from London):


You can easily select the List View, which will just show the titles of the latest pictures:


Links from both will take you to the specific page showing the panorama linked to it's Google map, or to the wider geographical region in which the picture was taken. This should make exploring the world through Panoramic Earth a little easier.

Improved Search Result Presentation

Searches for panoramas on Panoramic Earth has just got smarter as we have just implemented changes that make these more useful. Instead of a simple A-Z list of the search returns, these are now tabulated in a more meaningful way as shown below:


You get -

• Panorama ID - a site ID given to each panorama
• Location Name - An active link which will take you to the location listed
• Region and Country Listing - Shows you where in the world the location is found at a glance.

The search covers more than just the location title. For example, a search for 'victoria' will return both panorama locations with 'Victoria' in the title and also images from Victoria in Australia and other places where Victoria relevant to the search request.

This is much more useful than the old way of presenting search results as shown above.

Feeds Feed Sties

Sometimes it is interesting to see where the RSS site feed ends up. Recently we came across two sites that incorporate and show the our feed of new panoramas as part of their own site. Good news all round really, and another example of how the net weaves in and out to link various parts together. So if you do not have a feed reader, then let these sites do the feeding for you and just look at the panoramas that they put up. Two such sites are in the RSS Feed Directory and on Photopress which show the new panoramic images and the descriptions, with, of course, links back to the photographer and the page in Panoramic Earth where the image can be viewed with a world map and more information.

New Home Page

Panoramic Earth now has a new homepage giving more options and better access to the rest of the site. Changes include:

• Thumbnails of the latest panoramas added, linking through to the page
• Country pins on Google world map allowing quicker access to the country information
• New list of popular places of interest
• Goto a random panorama on the site

As before, you can still see the lists of recent photographers who have contributed to Panoramic Earth, and the list of the most recently updated regions of the world to which panoramas have been added.

Online Maps of London Attractions

So you are coming to London and want to find your way about the city. There are an increasing number of websites that contain information about London, the sights and the attractions. Which should you go to?

One such is this site about London tourist attractions, which is based on a Google Map mashup of London showing some images of some of the attractions you may find here. Each Google pin links through to a page with a brief description about the attraction. The site, moniterized by Google Ads, is clean and runs smoothly

An alternative site is also based on a map. This London Map contains over 100 panoramic images from around the city linked to an interactive map. It is part of a much larger collection of tours from various cities and is being built up by a number of different contributing panoramic photographers.

There is also another Google based Map which also contains some information about each attraction. Any of these sites are a good way to check out the attractions of the city before you come and visit.

Check out the London index of this blog to see what London sights and attractions have been described here to date.