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Scenicness Map of Great Britain

This was made a while ago, but never really publised – so time it was given a bit more exposure… Thanks to the thousands of people rating locations over at ScenicOrNot, and the fact those locations are...

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Pretty Map!

One of the things we been looking recently on Geograph, is guageing how ‘recent’ our coverage actually is. We impose no restriction on when photos where taken – because historical images are useful –...

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Geograph Images + Google Maps + Geocubes

Quite pleased with the latest update to the Geograph Clusters Map. This displays all geograph images on a interactive draggable Google Map. The clustering is powered by Geocubes . However the most...

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Faceted browsing of Geograph images in Flamenco!

Totally accidently, via a recent Ask-Slashdot post looking for a Search Engine interface, happened across Flamenco search interface framework. It didn’t suit the asker, but its pretty close to great...

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Geograph Mashup Challenge (new deadline!)

We are pleased to announce a developer challenge to build a cool Mashup using Geograph Data/Photos. The closing date for entries is 11pm 31st March 2010, extended until 11pm 30th April 2010. The first...

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Deadline extension for Geograph Mashup Challange

Due to lack of entries, the date has been extended until 11pm 30th April 2010. See the original post for more details of the event So an extra month to work on entries. Also gives me a bit more time to...

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‘Select Search’ Chrome extension – now with added Geograph

Jérémie, the developer of the ‘Select Search’ Chrome extension has just added support for Geograph. The extension hovers a small set of icons when select text on a webpage. So that can search for that...

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Anybody want to run Geograph Channel Islands?

A while ago I started putting together a sister project to Geograph Britain and Ireland (and Geograph Germany!); a dedicated project for the Channel Islands. It ‘freeloaded’ on the back of the Britain...

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Want a copy of the Geograph Archive? (by snail mail)

For the past few months I have been sending out copies of the Geograph Archive (all of it!) on USB hard disks. If you are interested then let me know, plan to make an order for blank hard disks early...

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Geograph Javascript Playgrounds

I often have little ideas for new ways to display images from Geograph, but its a pain building prototypes. It usually involves finding some other part developed prototype or feature, that I can use...

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