GeoGraph - photograph every grid square

Credits

Here's 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 contributor, 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 is currently working on a bulk standalone upload application.

Moderators

• View the Geograph Team page

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.

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 provide superb co-location hosting and support, giving a home to our collection of servers.
• During the early days of the project, we relied on a dedicated server generously donated by Positive Internet.

Supporting Sites

The following support Geograph in various functions:

• Natural Language Query Parsing by MetaCarta Web Services
• Online image manipulation by picnik.com

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

Technology

This project relies on the following open-source technologies:

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 seperatly
• GeoTools - Javascript Coordinate Conversion

We also strive to adhere to the following standards: