Bushfires sent searchers to my Panoramio images.
My images of the Warrumbungles and the Australian Astronomical Observatory, posted on Panoramio, experienced a surge of viewers during the horrific bushfire last week. Each of the six images (taken during a tour of the Observatory with Macarthur Astronomical Society in 2010), peaked during and just after the fires.
This image, which had previously only averaged about three views per day over the previous two years, received 152 views during the two to three days of the fire and its aftermath.
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Interestingly, the surge peaks were spread equally across Panoramio, Google Earth and Google Maps.