Google's Panoramio to soon shut down

Google acquired Panoramio, a location-centric photo sharing service back in 2007. The company through the use of its Google Maps and Google Earth services would essentially add photos to the Panoramio app and the website for users to learn more about a given area.

However, the company has decided to shut Panoramio down. This doesn’t come across as a surprise as the former had tried to shut down the service in 2014 first but since the founders of Panoramio launched a petition to reverse Google’s decision to kill the photo-sharing site, Google let Panoramio remain available for users.

“Today, with photo upload tools in Google Maps and our Local Guides program, we are providing easy options for you to share your photos with an active and growing community,” Google wrote in an email to Panoramio users today. “As such, we’ve decided to now close down Panoramio.”