Geograph - photograph every grid square

Here are all the people and technologies that make this site possible...

Original Idea

• came up with original concept.

Photographs

• Copyright on all photographs is retained by the original contributors, but all are published under a Creative Commons licence - each individual photograph on the site details the original photographer and their precise licence terms.
• View the Photograph Contributor Listing.

Software

• manages the software development as an open-source, GPL licensed project, and is responsible for much of the coding / design, as well as specifying and building the dedicated server farm. Paul can be contracted through his company Elphin Limited.
• , developer and maintainer of www.nearby.org.uk lends his wide experience of working with mapping technologies and was responsible for the site search, as well as contributing many other enhancements.
• Ian Rutson contributed to the Memory Map export features.
• David Morris has helped with the profile features and a bulk standalone upload application - JUppy.
• Hansjörg Lipp has fixed many a bug in the core code, during the creation of Geograph Germany.

Moderators

• A growing number of volunteer moderators drawn from the contributor list, donate their time and effort to help sort and maintain the image archive. View the Geograph Team for the list of current and past moderators.

Mapping & Location Data

• Historical Maps from the mid 20^th century kindly made available by VisionOfBritain.org.uk.
• GB & Ireland outline reproduced from 1990 World Vector Shoreline dataset by MIMA, not subject to copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 403.
• Placename/Toponymic information is based on the Geographic Names Data Base, containing official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. More information is available at the Products and Services link at www.nga.mil.
• Low Resolution postcode data from Sourceforge Geocode.Service project.
• Administrative County centre points compiled by .
• OSNI generously donated a complete set of 1:50000 paper maps for Northern Ireland, aiding photo moderation in the absence of suitable online maps.
• Historic County centre points compiled by .
• National Trail routes compiled with the help of magic.gov.uk and contributor Tony Atkin! (subject to Copyright, used under licence)
• National Cycle routes provided by sustrans.org.uk. (subject to Copyright, used with permission)
• Great Britain Gazetteer based upon Ordnance Survey® 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer, © Crown copyright Ordnance Survey. All Rights Reserved. Educational licence 100045616.
  • and enhanced with the Gazetteer of British Place Names, © Association of British Counties, used with permission.
• Great Britain 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster Mapping (Same as paper based Landranger™ product). © Crown copyright Ordnance Survey. All Rights Reserved. Educational licence 100045616. Provided as part of Sponsorship deal.
• Maps for Ireland and also during the search using the Google Maps API.
• Selected map extracts are from the OpenStreetMap project, via the Cycle Map rendering.
• UK Unit Postcodes, from OS OpenData : Contains Royal Mail data © Royal mail copyright and database right 2010.

Hosting

• Ordnance Survey® Great Britain have agreed to sponsor the project, allowing us to secure reliable hosting, as well as to develop the project into an educational context.
• Fubra/CatN provide superb co-location hosting and support, giving a home to our collection of servers.
• World of Computers build all our servers. Reliable machines coupled with great technical support.
• During the early days of the project, we relied on a dedicated server generously donated by Positive Internet.

Supporting Functionality

The following support Geograph in various functions:

• Natural Language Query Parsing by MetaCarta Web Services
• Online image manipulation by picnik.com
• Interactive 3D image viewer by cooliris.com
• EAFlashUpload flash file uploader

NOTE: use of these features does not imply endorsement by the host organizations

Technology

This project relies on the following open-source technologies:

In addition www.geograph.org.uk uses:
Linux (Debian & Ubuntu), Apache, memcached, munin, nfs, haproxy, varnish and m/monit.
to deliver a high performance website - but are not required to run the Geograph codebase.

Code Libaries

We have reused code from following open-source projects:

• Sorttable - javascript table reordering
• FeedCreator - Generate a wide range of RSS feeds in PHP - extended for GEO
• Rico - Javascript for Rich Internet Applications
• Prototype - Javascript Framework
• OpenLayers - DHTML and Javascript Draggable Map Interface
      Also reuses parts of Rico and Prototype separately
• GeoTools - Javascript Coordinate Conversion

We also strive to adhere to the following standards: