[OSM-talk] [OTish] Free, geocoded photo database?

[Paul Dixon]

>> Is anyone aware of any existing service that offers geocoded photos under a
>> guaranteed Free licence? Or should maybe freemap start up its own?
>>     
> You're aware of geograph.org.uk of course?  I don't know if I misunderstood 
> what you were asking.
>   
As I understood it, you're looking for a general purpose photo sharing 
solution that supports automated uploads and geolocated metadata, as 
well as a free licence.

Geograph ticks most of those boxes (there's no API for uploading, but 
it's coming soon) but it's not really like Flickr as all submissions are 
moderated to ensure they fit the criteria of the project. While we'd be 
happy to see OSM contributors submitting photos via some API, the fact 
that some might get rejected by a 3rd party project might not appeal! 
Also, Geograph is UK+Eire only, not worldwide.

I could turn this idea on it's head though - we can give you a feed of 
geolocated photos with a CC by-sa-2.0 licence to integrate into OSM. We 
have a variety of APIs for doing this and are happy to build new ones 
for this sort of thing, and we are collecting 600 new images a day at 
the moment.

Paul Dixon
Geograph Project