Oct 23, 2010 10:26 GMT  ·  By

If you thought Google Street View was bad enough, this photo taken at the Glastonbury festival earlier this year will trump anything Google has ever done. Reportedly containing more than 70,000 people, the photo was recognized as a Guinness World Record for most people tagged in a photo, 7,000.

Orange set out to create this new record last summer right after the Glastonbury festival. The photo itself is somewhat of an achievement, 36 50-megapixel photos have been stitched together to create it.

At 1,300 megapixels, 1.3 gigapixels if you will, the Glastonbury festival photo is not a contender for the world's largest panoramic photo - which stands at 45 gigapixels - but it's probably the one with most people.

Taken during halftime in the England - Slovenia World Cup match, the photo is estimated to have about 70,000 people in it.

This makes the 8,500 people tagged in it (more people were tagged after the record was awarded) a rather small figure, just over 10 percent of the total number.

Considering that the percentage of people in the UK with Facebook accounts is much larger and that most of those present were young so even more likely to have an account, there could have been significantly more.

Of course, perhaps most people wouldn't exactly want the world and their mom to know what they were doing at the Glastonbury festival and were reluctant to be tagged.

This would explain why it took almost four months to do it. Still, it's the largest number of people tagged in the same photo by a fair margin.

The team used a couple of high-end Hasselblad H4D-50 cameras capable of shooting 50 megapixel photos relatively fast, in just over one second. The cameras were hooked to a 150 mm lens and a 100 mm lens which made use of the tilt-shift adapter.

You can check out the full panoramic photo over at the Glastotag page and get the names of the 8,500 festival goers.