The web giant Google announced that photo-sharing community Panoramio will no longer available after November 4, 2016. The company sent out an email to to all its users with the following message:

Back in 2014, we announced our intention to retire Panoramio in order to invest our efforts into improving photo-sharing experiences directly inside Google Maps. In response to your feedback, we postponed these plans and worked to add features to Maps that better support the level of engagement that you have enjoyed with Panoramio. 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. As such, we’ve decided to now close down Panoramio. To make this transition easier, we’ll provide several options to continue sharing photos through other services. If you choose, you can also export all your data and take it somewhere else.

Panoramio no longer available after November 4, 2016 #google #panoramio

— Karim YAHIA (@yahiakarim) October 8, 2016

What will happen? All your Panoramio photos will be copied to the Google Album Archive at full resolution after Panoramio goes away.

Google also said that “after November 4, 2016, you’ll continue to have access to your photos in Panoramio for a year.”

The company didn’t disclose if there will be another service to replace Panoramio.

-Thailand News (TN)