Photos on Google Maps

I just found a very interesting feature on Google maps that I had never seen before. I opened a new Google page, clicked on “Maps”, typed in a city, and of course the map came up to the right, but on the left, 3 small photos of the area also showed up. Under them was a caption, “More Photos”. I clicked it. That brought up a page with something called Panoramio. Suddenly the map was speckled with tiny photos all over the map. Each one was clickable and came up larger, with a caption of where or what it was. I can’t seem to figure out how to get a screen shot embedded here, unfortunately.

I can see “addiction” written all over this. Looks like some areas have more photos posted than others, but what fun to pull up photos of places I’ve lived before!