Dank
Die Idee für diese Seite ist entstanden, als ich im Web nach Bildern eines Küstenabschnitts Cornwalls suchte und so auf Geograph British Isles stieß. Die Philosophie hinter diesem Projekt hat mich sofort begeistert, so dass ich mich immer öfter fragte, warum es ein solches Projekt nicht für meine Region gibt.
Allerdings wäre ich selbst nie in der Lage gewesen, etwas ähnliches auf die Beine zu stellen, hätten uns die Betreiber von www.geograph.org.uk nicht den Quelltext zur Verfügung gestellt. Auch standen sie uns bei Problemen und Fragen mit Tat und Rat zu Seite. Herzlichen Dank dafür insbesondere an Barry Hunter.
Für Anregungen und Mithilfe beim deutschen Projekt danke ich Stephen Hocker und Christian Lipp. Ulrich Meier hat sich unter anderem viel Arbeit mit den Karten (Seen in Bayern, Küsten) gemacht. Auch beim Erfassen der Städte und insbesondere der Landkreise hat er einen großen Teil der Arbeit geleistet. Ohne seinen und Sebastian Ballards Einsatz bei der Moderation hätte ich noch weniger Zeit für die Weiterentwicklung der Seite.
Grenzen
Die Grenzen stammen größtenteils von OpenStreetMap. Vielen Dank auch an geoclub-User "flopp" für seine Mithilfe.
Städte
Ein Teil der Städtekoordinaten wurde der OpenGeoDB entnommen.
Karten
Vielen Dank "Nop" für die Erlaubnis, die Wanderreitkarte einbinden zu dürfen, sowie Andy Allan für die Erlaubnis, die OpenCycleMap einbinden zu dürfen.
Kartendaten
Die statischen Mapnik-Kartenkacheln für die verschiebbare Karte wurden aus OpenStreetMap-Daten erstellt, die von der GEOFABRIK als Deutschland-Auszug zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
Digitales Höhenmodell
Die "Relief"-Kartenkacheln für die verschiebbare Karte wurden aus CIAT-Daten erstellt. Zum Erstellen der Kacheln hat "Nop" von der Wanderreitkarte hilfreiche Tipps gegeben.
Credits-Seite von www.geograph.org.uk
Here's all the people and technologies that make this site possible...Original Idea
- came up with original concept.
Photographs
- Copyright on all photographs is retained by the original contributor, but all are
published under a Creative Commons
licence -
each individual photograph on the site details the original photographer and their precise licence terms. - View the Photograph Contributor Listing.
Software
- manages the
software development as an open-source, GPL licensed project, and is responsible for
much of the coding / design, as well as specifying and building the dedicated server farm.
Paul can be contracted through his company Elphin Limited.
- ,
developer and maintainer of
www.nearby.org.uk lends his wide experience of working with
mapping technologies and was responsible for the site search, as well as
contributing many other enhancements.
- Ian Rutson contributed to the Memory Map export features.
- David Morris has helped with the profile features and a bulk standalone upload application - JUppy.
Moderators
- A growing number of volunteer moderators drawn from the contributor list, donate their time and effort to help sort and maintain the image archive. View the Geograph Team for the list of current and past moderators.
Mapping & Location Data
- Historical Maps from the mid 20th century kindly made available by
VisionOfBritain.org.uk.
- GB & Ireland outline reproduced from 1990 World Vector Shoreline dataset by
MIMA,
not subject to copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 403.
- Placename/Toponymic information is based on the Geographic Names Data Base, containing official
standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and maintained by the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. More information is available at the Products and Services link at
www.nga.mil.
- Low Resolution postcode data from Sourceforge Geocode.Service project.
- Administrative County centre points compiled by .
- OSNI generously donated a complete set of
1:50000 paper maps for Northern Ireland, aiding photo moderation in the absence of suitable online maps.
- Historic County centre points compiled by .
- National Trail routes compiled with the help of magic.gov.uk and contributor Tony Atkin! (subject to Copyright, used under licence)
- National Cycle routes provided by sustrans.org.uk. (subject to Copyright, used with permission)
- Great Britain Gazetteer based upon Ordnance Survey® 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer, © Crown copyright Ordnance Survey. All Rights Reserved. Educational licence 100045616.
- and enhanced with the Gazetteer of British Place Names, © Association of British Counties, used with permission.
- and enhanced with the Gazetteer of British Place Names, © Association of British Counties
- Great Britain 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster Mapping (Same as paper based Landranger™ product). © Crown copyright Ordnance Survey. All Rights Reserved. Educational licence 100045616. Provided as part of Sponsorship deal.
- Maps for Ireland and also during the search using the Google Maps API.
Hosting
- Ordnance Survey® Great Britain have agreed to sponsor the project, allowing us to secure reliable hosting, as well as to develop the project into an educational context.
- Fubra provide superb co-location hosting and support, giving a home to our collection of servers.
- During the early days of the project, we relied on a dedicated server generously donated by Positive Internet.
Supporting Sites
The following support Geograph in various functions:
- Natural Language Query Parsing by MetaCarta Web Services
- Online image manipulation by picnik.com
NOTE: use of these features does not imply endorsement by the host organizations
Technology
This project relies on the following open-source technologies:
Code Libaries
We have reused code from following open-source projects:
- Sorttable - javascript table reordering
- FeedCreator - Generate a wide range of RSS feeds in PHP - extended for GEO
- Rico - Javascript for Rich Internet Applications
- Prototype - Javascript Framework
- OpenLayers - DHTML and Javascript Draggable Map Interface
Also reuses parts of Rico and Prototype separately - GeoTools - Javascript Coordinate Conversion
We also strive to adhere to the following standards:
