[OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

[Russ Nelson]

Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust to
keep photos of features? Once I finish gathering my set of photos of
NY railroad bridges, where should I upload them so that I can
automagically add links to the photos to each OSM bridge=yes way?

Flickr? Archive.org? Wikimedia.org? Google Photos? Instagram?

The trouble with any for-profit service is that if they cease to make
money, they will be shut down. The trouble with any non-profit service
is that if they cease to get donations, they will be shut down.

Has anybody attempted to solve this problem before in other problem
domains? Unfortunately, I don't know everything (it's a flaw of mine),
so it's quite possible that there is some RFC or standard or suchlike
where you name a photo with an MD5 of its contents, and then upload it
to multiple sites or something like that I have no idea quite what.

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