Geograph for Developers

It's all Open Source

First and foremost Geograph is a community project, and to this end all the source code that powers the site is Open Source. See our SourceForge page, Link , we however now have our own SVN and Trac setup for project management, see also our hub: Link .

If you know what any of the following mean, and have an interest in helping out, then please get in touch
PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Smarty, Adodb, Javascript, jQuery, XML, RSS, KML, GeoRSS, REST.

Resources and Links

• Developers Virtual Machine (see below) - run a copy of Geograph locally to experiment
• Live API - ondemand access to Geograph Data
• Data Downloads - load our data into your mysql database
• Javascript PlayGround - mini-site to create javascript applications. Includes hosting and easy access to Geograph API
• API demos: one, two (more in the Javascript Playground above)
• SVN Repository

(more: Geograph Hub)

Ready to Run - Developers Virtual Machine

We have created a pre-configured WMware virtual machine, this comes with all the software needed for the website to run. This is a great way to explore how the site works, and a quickstart way to get involved in development. You can download the machine image from our torrents download site or read more

• All you need is the (free) VMplayer application, and can run Geograph locally in a matter of minutes.

Supporting the developers

Even if you can't help our with coding directly, the developers are always looking for beta testers, and ideas for current and upcoming features. The Discussion area is the best place to find out about this, but contact us directly and there might be a unreleased feature you could help with.

See also the Geograph-API-Users Google Discussion Group

Reusing our Images and Data

As all the images are Creative Commons Licensed, we actively promote reuse. We have an API available to make getting access to data, see this help page: Link

Big ideas for Geograph

We have put together a page: Big Ideas for Geograph, which lists a number of ideas for projects involving geograph data and/or the geograph website; particully suited to work by an new or external developer.

Moving forward...

A random list of things we would love to see but don't have the time to develop ... (in no particular order)

• Flash based Image viewers (lots of possibilities here...)
• Statistics - we have the weblogs, just not the application to process them (aside from generic stats pages like awstats) - looking for a solution to give per photo/user breakdowns)
• Develop new educational games (ideally incorporating our photos and maps!)
• and anything else you can think off!

... then there of course is the ongoing grammar and typo updates for documentation etc, and compatibility testing of all ongoing features ...

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