Geograph British Isles project

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Geograph British Isles is a web-based project to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of the British Isles.

Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features [1] of each 1 km x 1 km grid square in the British national grid reference system and the Irish national grid reference system. There are 330,286 such grid-squares, counting only those on land.

Geographs are being collected for Great Britain and Ireland, and a similar project is planned for New Zealand. The Channel Islands fall outside Britain's grid system, but may be geographed using their local UTM grid.

Photographs can be taken by anyone, although they must be approved before appearing on the website. All images are licensed by the contributors using the Creative Commons cc-by-sa 2.0 licence which permits modification and redistribution of the images under certain conditions.

As an incentive to increase coverage, participants are awarded a point each time they contribute a first geograph to a grid square. The activity of taking photographs for the project is known as geographing. Some participants combine geographing with other outdoor location sports such as geocaching, trigpointing, benchmarking, and peak bagging.

1 Types of image
2 Statistics
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Types of image

Image:NS6469 harvest.jpg Geograph images are categorised by site moderators as:

Geograph - an image which usefully illustrates or characterises the area in which it was taken
First geograph - the first image uploaded of a particular grid square which meets the requirements to be a geograph
Supplemental - an image which adds useful information about a square (typically a closeup of some object) but which does not meet the standards required for a geograph.

Some of the common themes for geograph photos include:

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[edit] Statistics

As of November 2006, the project had more than a quarter of a million photographs contributed by nearly 3000 photographers, covering over 50% of the grid squares in Great Britain and 7% of the grid squares in Ireland.[2]