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How to search

Basics
To find a location the search engine makes 3 steps. This is the basic concept :
The search engine will first look for an exact match of the search words.
If no match is found it will search for the first 2 search words.
The search engine will then offer the option to continue search for words, locations and regions starting with the search words.
After that it will offer a deep search for cities, locations and regions containing the search words.
The search results are presented in different colors, white for capital cities, light gray for regions and dark gray for all other results
Advanced
The search engine will first look if the location searched for is the name of a country.
(In the database are the country names of all countries in about 15 languages.)
if the search matches a country name, the engine will display the capital city of the country and the option to continue search for the search word as a location or region. (for example : France is a country but also a village.)
If a match is found other than in the English language the search word is first translated to English and then re-run through the search engine. The result page will offer the English results with the option to search for the original search words. (Example : Parijs is the dutch word for Paris but Parijs untranslated is also an existing location.)

Navigate

There are 3 ways to find a location on stad.com.
By searching a location using the search features.
By clicking a location on the map.
By clicking on a trail and follow the trailpoints.

What are trails ?

Photos and Copyright

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Stad.com uses the API's (Application programming interface) provided by Panoramio and Flickr.
Members of Panoramio and/or Flickr have agreed to the terms of these websites allowing third party
websites like this one to use images on the conditions described on their websites.

Panoramio

Panoramio Copyright rules
"When you post a photo in Panoramio, you grant Google the right to use it as follows: Host it,Display it,Make the photo available from the APIs"

Google terms
Google is the owner of Panoramio, by using this service members agreed to the google terms.
"..you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works.."
Photos removed from Panoramio will not be visible anymore on stad.com.
Here is how : Delete Panoramio photos
Flickr

Using small versions (thumbnails) of flickr images on other websites is not illegal !
Please read the rules and options at flickr.com. You can easily disable your images being used on external websites.

Flickr gives websites an easy opportunity to use flickr images. look here : http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds
This is a feature flickr offers. There are thousends of other websites that display flickr photo's.
The flickr copyright protects the photo's for being used in printed material and such, in this case you
can click on the photo's and return to the corresponding page on flickr, something flickr promotes.
the images are not stored on the servers of stad.com.
Here is more info :Flickr sharing

There are several options to disable the photo's of being displayed on other websites.
- You can disable this on flickr.
- Change the tags of your photo's.

Either way, the photos will be not be displayed anymore after you made one of the above adjustments.
Here is how to disable :
- To disable your photo's on external websites take the next steps : Go to : http://www.flickr.com/account/?tab=privacy
  and click the edit button next to : 'Hide your stuff from public searches '
- Toggle : 'Hide your photo stream from searches on 3rd party sites that use the API? ' and click 'save'
- After a few minutes your photo's will not be visible anymore on other websites.

Contact

You can send an email to info at (name of this website) .com