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How to geo-tag images with Panoramio

Put your digital photographs on the map

7. Use Panoramio's tabs to view the most popular, your own or all images tagged to that location. Click any thumbnail image to view it full-size. To share Panoramio images with friends, click the Your Photos tab and copy the URL displayed in the address bar. Paste it into an email and forward it to your friends.

Geo-tagging Step 7

8. Panoramio lets you view images in Google Earth, too. Head to earth.google.com, select your location from the drop-down menu, then agree to the terms and conditions and click download. Open the shortcut on your desktop and click Install. Click Finish to complete the setup, then launch Google Earth.

Geo-tagging Step 8

9. Back at Panoramio, click the Your Photos tab and then choose to see the image in Google Earth. In the resulting pop-up window, make sure that the ‘Open With' option is selected and that Google Earth is the program selected in the drop-down menu. Finally, click Open.

Geo-tagging Step 9

10. In Google Earth, a photos folder will have appeared under the Places section on the lefthand side of the display, containing your images and the location where they were captured. Double-click this folder and Google Earth will zoom in and display an aerial picture of the area the photographs were taken in.

Geo-tagging Step 10

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