Credits
Perhaps the best way of expressing this is with a timeline...| Feb 2005 | Gary Rogers came up with original concept for Great Britain, Ireland is quickly added. |
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| Mar 2005 | Paul Dixon created the geograph.org.uk website, and at the same time created the open source project (GPL licensed) so the concept can easily be taken further afield. |
| Apr 2005 | Barry Hunter joins the project to further the mapping and search functionality, and continues to add statistics and other features. |
| Sept 2005 | Ian Rutson contributed to the Memory Map export features. |
| Oct 2006 | David Morris created the bulk standalone upload application - JUppy |
| Oct 2008 | Hansjörg Lipp stepped up and created Geograph Germany. At the same time helps clean up the codebase which has seen a few years of tending to become more and more British Isles specific. |
| Apr 2010 | Barry Hunter creates and maintains the Geograph Channel Islands website... |
| Feb 2016 | Geograph Project Limited takes over responsiblity for the website |
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.
Moderators
- Currently the the Geograph Team are drawn from contributors to Geograph Britain and Ireland.
Mapping & Location Data
- Maps via Google Maps API.
Hosting
Geograph Channel Islands is hosted by Geograph Britain and Ireland, which in turn is supported by:- Ordnance Survey® 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.
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
Without all of the above this site wouldn't be possible, thanks to everyone involved!
We also strive to adhere to the following standards:
