[Tagging] Photo links in OSM

[Richard Welty]

>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfgusedautoparts/8596790653/
>>
>> and while you can dig up a direct link to a jpg, it looks like this:
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>> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8366/8596790653_06bb215baf_k_d.jpg
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>> 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:
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> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8366/8596790653_4a803cf407.jpg
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>   Flickr's official terms of service try to discourage direct links to 
> images.  So they might break them in the future.
right. there's extra stuff in that link, it looks like the extra stuff 
is different
each time. there is absolutely no reason to believe that it's stable or
permanent.

the image link scheme, if it is to include flickr, cannot assume that 
the URL
is a direct image link.

richard