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The Official Google Blog informs us Google purchased Panoramio. From the blog: "Panoramio is a community photos website that enables digital photographers to geo-locate, store and organize their photographs -- and to view those photographs in Google Earth. Other users can search and browse Panoramio photos and suggest edits to the metadata associated with the photos. Panoramio also offers an API that enables web developers to embed Panoramio functionality into their websites. [...] This layer will remain in place as our teams work together toward further integrating this amazing content, generated by many, into our mapping technologies." The GEB adds some more information.
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