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We're starting a new project in the mag and we need your help!

We want to Geograph the UK!

To do this we want to collect photographs of every square kilometre (by ordnance survey grid reference) of the country.

You could be the first to bag a square by sending in your photo and you'll be remebered for eternity because your caching name will be entered next to each grid reference for which you provide the first photograph!

 

We hope you'll take part in this project and that it will add an interesting extra dimension to your caching.

 

Geograph

 

The page is still under development but ultimately each grid square will link to a new page containing a photo for each square kilometer and a table referencing squares to the cachers who supplied the photo!

 

thanks and best wishes

Inukshuk

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It's apparentl a "new" project but the page suggests that only SD squares are available. Does that mean everywhere else has been done?

No, it means Gary lives in Billinge just yards north of the SD/SJ border! :ph34r:

 

Well, since I'm well into SD I'll see what I can do. :ph34r:

 

A photo of Blackpool on a Saturday night could well be interesting! :rolleyes:

 

Cheers!

 

Seasider

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Thanks for the questions:

each image should be less than 2mb and no larger than 10x8 inches and sent as a jpeg or similar file - ie NOT embedded in a word doc.

 

A brief note is needed about the pic with date, grid ref and ideally a short description.

 

as near the centre point of the grid square as possible ideally but as long as the main subject of the picture reflects the nature of the grid square thats ok.

 

regarding copyright - i need to be able to use the images freely on the website. I'm not looking for master photography, its just for fun. If copyright is an issue to you, send a picture you're not worried about or don't bother playing!

 

All the UK grid squares will become available soon - but you dont have to wait for them to appear, just take a photo and send it in! Which 100k square would you like to appear next?!

 

!!Its just for fun!!

 

thanks and best wishes

Inuk

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Thanks for that, just need a little clarification.

 

So, photos should be no larger than 720x576 @ 72dpi

On the question of copyright, it's not an issue, it's just that Bekie is a photographer and needs to keep track of photos she holds copyright of and ones that have had copyright passed on. :rolleyes: Am I right in thinking that these photos will become public domain?

 

Looking forward to bombarding you with photos :ph34r:

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Just had a look at the site - would it not be clearer to just use 4-figure grid refs, and throw out all those redundant 5s?

 

SK0000, SK0001, SK0002 etc.

 

rather than:

 

SK005005, SK005015, SK005025

 

I can see why you've used 6 figures - to get near the centre of each square, but it add a lot of clutter to the site.

 

Feel free to ignore me, of course!

 

Cheers,

 

Stu

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Many thanks to The Birders for supplying our very first picture covering

SU 765 635 !

 

It will be up on the website later today!

 

keep em coming - one down, 1/4 million or so to go!

 

best wishes

Inuk

If you're referring to a OS grid square you should give the coordinates of the SW corner not the centre point...

 

SU 765 635 refers to the small 100m square whose SW corner is at 476500 163500

 

You should be saying SU7663 in this case. Which is in the 10km square SU76. Note that the OS refer to quarter sheets at 10k mapping, i.e. SU76NE, SU76NW, SU76SE and SU76SW. Each of these sheets are 5km square. For example the 1km square SU7663 is on sheet SU76SE.

 

Good luck, there are a hell of a lot of very empty 1km squares in the UK!!

 

John

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Firstly great idea! This will be really interesting.

 

Second, woooooooaaahhhhhhhhhh, STOP! Like all great ideas that become great things, this one need more planning than it's getting at the moment. I susupect that if you carry on with it like it is now, it will become unmaintainable.

 

I'm presuming that as the pages are appearing one at a time that they are manuall generated static pages? If so, you are going to get bored very quickly. I suggest some sort of php/mysql solution, which really will not take TOO much development. If I wasn't off to Sweden monday, I'd volunteer, I'm sure someone else will.

 

Another suggestion if I may, those areas with no links as yet, why not make them links to multimap/streetmap?

 

Good luck with this project

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NS9171 duly photographed from dead centre and piccie submitted.

 

I concur with those who have pointed out that kilometre squares are conventionally referred to in four figure grid references, not six. It's normally only Hectares which are given 6fig square numbers and there are 24,475,400 of those in the UK!

 

Will we be able to upload logs directly, as with Geocaching.com, TrigpointingUK, DegreeConfluence et al? 244,475+ logs seems an awful lot to be processed individually and manually! Even if it only takes a minute for the editor of the mag to process each one, working flat out 8 hours a day without a break and working 5 days a week without holidays or caching breaks, it would take a couple of years to process the log entries by hand - and that presumes that each square will only have one submission. Photogenic places and frequently visited places are likely to have many mutiple entries.

 

Cheers, The Forester

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Firstly great idea! This will be really interesting.

 

Second, woooooooaaahhhhhhhhhh, STOP! Like all great ideas that become great things, this one need more planning than it's getting at the moment. I susupect that if you carry on with it like it is now, it will become unmaintainable.

 

I'm presuming that as the pages are appearing one at a time that they are manuall generated static pages? If so, you are going to get bored very quickly. I suggest some sort of php/mysql solution, which really will not take TOO much development. If I wasn't off to Sweden monday, I'd volunteer, I'm sure someone else will.

 

Another suggestion if I may, those areas with no links as yet, why not make them links to multimap/streetmap?

 

Good luck with this project

I get the feeling this would be a superb GCSE ICT project. There was a comment on the examiners annual report that they wanted to see more on-line database driven solutions!

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Firstly great idea!  This will be really interesting.

 

Second, woooooooaaahhhhhhhhhh, STOP! Like all great ideas that become great things, this one need more planning than it's getting at the moment.  I susupect that if you carry on with it like it is now, it will become unmaintainable.

 

I'm presuming that as the pages are appearing one at a time that they are manuall generated static pages?  If so, you are going to get bored very quickly.  I suggest some sort of php/mysql solution, which really will not take TOO much development.  If I wasn't off to Sweden monday, I'd volunteer, I'm sure someone else will.

 

Another suggestion if I may, those areas with no links as yet, why not make them links to multimap/streetmap?

 

Good luck with this project

I get the feeling this would be a superb GCSE ICT project. There was a comment on the examiners annual report that they wanted to see more on-line database driven solutions!

Don't you think it's a bit complicated for GCSE students? :rolleyes:

MarcB

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Looking forward to bombarding you with photos  :ph34r:

Oi! leave some of the local area for me!!!

Hey, No arguments! SP happens to be MY area you know. It's even got my name on it...

 

SP :o

But SP is big you know!

 

Ok maybe that came out slightly wrong :ph34r::o:rolleyes:

Leave Simply Paul out of this.

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All the UK grid squares will become available soon - but you dont have to wait for them to appear,

<Wlw studies map on site...>

 

A small point, but please stop referring to "UK" when what you actually mean is "Great Britain".

 

Thanks.

Get in there... or perhaps, "just Britain" :rolleyes:

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I get the feeling this would be a superb GCSE ICT project.  There was a comment on the examiners annual report that they wanted to see more on-line database driven solutions!

Don't you think it's a bit complicated for GCSE students? :D

MarcB

Too complicated for most, I agree, but the examiners are looking for something to really stretch the A* grades and looking for a well rounded solutin using web technologies.

 

I didn't mean to belittle this project, in fact just the opposite. This is a complex project, but really interesting with a well specced goal. Too many of the gifted and talented students end up extending a fairly simple project and get a bit lost in a 'fluffy' ill-defined area where they can't evaluate whether they have met the goal any better than the first draft that they tried to extend.

 

There are a few really able students out there that could pull this off.

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This is a great idea, I'll start on NZ this weekend.

 

Would it be possible to present the 1:25,000 map section on the corresponding page with the photo's, once they are uploaded, so we can see map and pics side by side? Not sure about copyright, but the OS Get-a-map page lets you save each image and has a copyright note embedded.

 

ribel

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