On Wednesday 15 October 2008 04:15:46 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Howard Cheng howard@howcheng.com wrote:
I think many of them have already been uploaded. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=geograph.co.uk&g o=Go
Well, it's geograph.*org*.uk, and you might as well look at [[:Category:Geograph_images]]
Only a few thousand here and there unless I missed something.
9,562 :-)
So they have what, a little over a million? I'd say thanks, but no thanks. It really is a pity that they rescale to 640 pixels. If we import all of them we'd be essentially duplicating their hosting effort with a much worse interface (no offense), and we'd just clutter up our picture collection with technically inferior images (and I challenge you to categorize them all!).