Geograph is a project aimed at covering the entire British Isles in digital images. It plans on geotagging the UK and Ireland with digital photographs taken and contributed by travellers and amateur photographers. The project has started accepting images and a whopping response greeted it with thousands of pictures.

What geotagging does is marry the art of photography with the precise science of digital cartography. In practical terms, all this really means is stamping digital images with the same grid references used by mapmakers, making them easy for others to locate on the internet.

This project will ensure that every centimeter of UK and Ireland are captured on images and placed on the map. It means that every street, traffic lights, museums, castles and minute details are available for viewing.

So, geograph is reaching out to those with high resolution cameras to take pictures of places in the UK and Ireland and upload them in the appropriate grid on the website.

So, when the project is complete, visitors can zoom in on the place of interest and view the pictures instead of just knowing the location and other non-imagery details. Neat idea!

About Geograph: The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and you can be part of it.

via Guardian