[Commons-l] Geograph British Isles

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 22:42:54 UTC 2007


On 8/10/07, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found this image source:
> http://www.geograph.org.uk/
> "The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically
> representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of
> the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and you can be part of it."
>
> The interesting part is that
> a) They already have a lot of images
> b) They're free :-)
> (They talk about 'Creative Commons', but they seem to mean Cc-by-sa
> http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq.php#opensource They clearly reject ND)
>
> The not-so-good part is that they only are 800x600

We have long had a template for this source:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Geograph

Please use that template.
Sooner or later I'll get around to making a bot to generate location
templates from the links back to their site.



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