Once I was working on a project, where we needed to assembly as much raw information about
some specific regions of US, as possible, pack them in a database and use them for some
probabilistic modeling of the regions. We ingested OSM, bunch of satellite and elevation
data, and all the geotagged images we could find. From one region we had few thousand
images from panoramio, few thousands from flickr and 3 from Commons...
Jarek T.
User:jarekt
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On Behalf Of Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:35 PM
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Subject: [Commons-l] Google Maps/Panoramio vs. Commons
There's been some outcry lately about the removal of the Wikipedia layer from Google
Maps, both by wikimedians (mainly on wikimedia-l) and Google users + wikimedians (on
Google's support forums).
Someone speculated that the Wikipedia/Commons layer was not popular enough because it was
too hidden, but the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that Google has now
built Panoramio to be strong enough and wants to reinforce it further with its Google
Earth/Maps
integration: every time you check a map, you are provided with Panoramio photos which not
only complement Street View but also provide a very nice tool for geolocation,
compensating the rather poor semantics of many Google maps compared to well-annotated
areas of OSM. If you check Panoramio photos, they have impressive amounts of views.
So, has anyone done a comparison of how well Commons is doing compared to Panoramio, for
the part where their scopes intersect? How are their comparative popularity, coverage and
quality going? What are the critical features which convince users to upload content to
Panoramio, what do we lack?
Nemo
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