Terms of Contents

After weeks of hard work, this is the first version of the "Panoye Terms of Contents" document:

Panoye - terms of service

• Panoye is a website intended for the presentation of panoramic photographs. A panoramic photograph is any photograph covering over 120° horizontally.
• By registering on Panoye you agree to all the terms and conditions of this document.
• Registration to Panoye is free. Every user may have only one user account within which all available options may be used. Every user is provided with a page containing a list of his panoramas, a short text and a link to his personal website.
• Every user is allowed to upload the maximum of 4 panoramic photographs per day.
• Photographs have to be panoramic and not contain offensive contents. Every photograph may be uploaded only once.
• The site administrators may remove photographs they find inappropriate, according to the criteria set in this document.
• The site administrators may erase unwarranted advertisement comments («spam»).
• The webmaster is obliged to respect the copyrights of contributing photographers. Every page featuring a photograph is going to contain a link to the photographer's Panoye site.
• Any user not upholding the terms and conditions of this document may be denied access to Panoye by the administrators.

Using Panoye.com contents

• Widgets (html which can be copied to other web pages) may be used without asking for permission only for noncommercial websites.
• In case you would like to use Panoye contents on commercial websites, you are obliged to contact the owner of the photograph and the Panoye webmaster for permission.
• In case you are using widgets, you must not, under any circumstances, remove the links to the users' websites and the links to other panoramas at Panoye.
• Texts such as photograph descriptions, comments, forum contents are the intellectual property of their respective authors. If you would like to use them, you have to contact their authors.
• Texts which are property of the webmaster (e. g. blog contents) may be used, provided you include the name of the text author and the link to Panoye. 

Do you think the terms are OK? If you don't agree or if you find any error - comment or email me.

Misfortune while doing a spherical pano :(

If you try to make a spherical panorama in a cold, wet and muddy place like the Baredine cave, and if you are not careful enough - this is what happens:


Well... Yes, this crack is from my Canon 300D... My brother said he can fix it (I hope he is right) and is trying right now. But for the moment - I'm without camera.

:(

Update: My brother fixed it - it works again. Thanks Bro' ! ;-)

Flickr revisited

I wrote that the import of panoramas from flickr don't work for users without PRO accounts ("PRO" on flickr, not panoye :). At first I thought not to continue the development of that feature, but Padalofilo suggested to let users upload their panoramas even if they aren't PRO users.

OK, I did it and it works. Even for ordinary users. But if you are not a flickr-PRO user - you will not be able to upload the original-size images. For example, I (with my non-PRO flickr account) uploaded a 5000pixels wide image on flickr. But, when importing to panoye - I was able to upload only a 1024x254 version of the image:



This new feature will be online tomorrow is online now... Hope all you Panoye/flickr users like it!

Build your own panoramic head

There is a very interesting article on wikihow with detailed instructions on how to build your own panoramic head:

Panoye upgrade, flickr...

I'm preparing for a new upgrade of panoye. It includes:

• "Suggest" a new/better location/orientation for panoramas
• Better upload wizard (no need to upload image twice if you forget some text field)
• Widget with user's new panoramas
• + a few minor bug fixes...
  

But I had to give up the idea of import images directly from Flickr. There is a problem I haven't been able to solve...

Listing all user's panoramas, importing data (title, map position, description and tags) was easy to implement. But the problem is with image sizes. When you upload an image - flickr creates five different versions of your photo (see example). With Flickr API - it is possible to get the url of each of those five different images (and then import it on panoye). But the biggest is only 1024 pixels wide - still to small for panoye...

It would be ideal if it is possible to locate the original image (instead of those five versions). But it is not. Or, to be precise - sometimes it is, sometimes it is not - it depends on the type us user ("pro" or "normal") and the licence. But for most images - only the 1024 pixels wide images are available :(

Anyway, the new version will be online tomorrow. Just upgraded! ;)