[Tagging] Photo links in OSM

[Mike N]

On 6/11/2013 4:18 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> i'm not sure that flickr links to jpgs are particularly stable, you may
> want to consider that in your documentation of a flickr link. flickr links
> these days look like this:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfgusedautoparts/8596790653/
>
> and while you can dig up a direct link to a jpg, it looks like this:
>
> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8366/8596790653_06bb215baf_k_d.jpg
>
> and i'm just not persuaded that flickr will honor this as a permanent
> link.


I can find the direct link by:

   More Ways To share / HTML/BBCode, then extract the image link:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8366/8596790653_4a803cf407.jpg

   Flickr's official terms of service try to discourage direct links to 
images.  So they might break them in the future.