Ensuring Longevity

This page sets out to document some of the efforts to ensure that the "Geograph Archive" is available for a long time - hopefully for many future generations.

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• Use of an Open Licence for content - both for Source code, and the photos themselves - Freedom - The Geograph Manifesto

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• Standard data formats - images are in .jpg format, data is available in many formats (csv, xml, mysql etc).

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• Data is distributed - we have an API and database dumps available. more

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• We attempt to check that pages linked from image descriptions are generally Archived. See

Checking External Links

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• Other entities/projects hold substantial copies of the Geograph database/Archive, examples:

WebArchive - project by the British Library. At time of writing mirrors about 1.5Million photos.


WikiMedia Commons will mirror almost our entire archive, currently, 300,000 or so available, but do have a copy of first 2M which are being uploaded. via


UpMyStreet - have a copy of approximately 600,000 images.


Copies of the images and database mailed out on request - at least 4 copies with 2M images, distributed in this way.


Many others have copies of 250,000 images from the torrents.

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• Open Source code - the code is available for reuse - promoting community development.

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• Code is available on external Google Project hosting - which mirrors self hosted repository. (An older more obsolete version on SourceForge)

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• Multiple Backups - The images are replicated to multiple servers. And copied to two off-site locations (in near real time).

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