Type of site | Photography website |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Geograph Project Limited |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required for contributing photos |
| Users | 13,449 contributors as of 29 November 2021[1] |
| Launched | 6 March 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC-BY-SA |
Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland.[1] Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 ha) grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system.[2][3] There are 332,216 such grid squares containing at least some land or permanent structure (at low tide), of which 281,131 have Geographs.[4]
Geographs are being collected for all parts of Great Britain, Isle of Man and Ireland. The Channel Islands fall outside Britain's grid system, but may be geographed using their local UTM grid.
The project is sponsored by the Ordnance Survey, and extracts from the OS Landranger 1:50,000 scale maps illustrate the grid square pages. Geograph Project Limited is a charity registered in England and Wales,[5] and the name Geograph is trademarked.[6]
- ^ a b "Geograph". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ Hawgood D. Geograph or supplemental (June 2007) (accessed 13 March 2008)
- ^ Bennett, Magnus (29 November 2021). "The 'map nerds' who are building a national archive". BBC Scotland News. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Geograph: Overview Statistics for Geograph British Isles (accessed 24 June 2014)
- ^ "Geograph Project Limited, registered charity no. 5023932". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
- ^ About Geograph (accessed 25 June 2012)