[Talk-GB] Sharing photos [was: Re: Finding out if a TFL bus stop is still active]

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Geograph provide suitable boilerplate in wikimedia markup for their
licence. I usually download a Geograph file & upload to wikimedia, and as a
last step replace the default licence provided by the wikimedia dropdowns
with the geograph boilerplate. Unfortunately a project to automatically
pull Geograph images into wikimedia seems to have petered out, so it's
slightly more tedious than it needs to be. It's important to complete the
last step as someone will undoubtedly delete the uploaded image otherwise.
Of course, the same process can be used to upload to the OSM Wiki.



On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 21:24, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Geograph is useful for finding free to use photos when mapping.
>
> Free to use *and* an open licence. Happy days.
>
> The only awkward bit is putting them into the wiki when that's useful:
> there's no machine-readable option for the licence Geograph uses.
>
> (iirc, Geograph use CCBY4.0 and the wiki dropdown offers only CCBY2.0?)
>
> On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 21:06, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 18:35 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> > On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 14:57, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> asked
>> > parenthetically:
>> >
>> > > what is the best way to share a photo with the list?
>> >
>> > If it's your own work (as in this case) upload it to Wikimedia
>> > Commons, and share a link.
>> >
>> > Otherwise, Flickr, ditto.
>>
>> and in the UK https://www.geograph.org.uk/
>>
>> Geograph is useful for finding free to use photos when mapping.
>>
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
>>
>>
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