Geograph Britain and Ireland

Geograph Britain and Ireland
Type of businessRegistered charity in England and Wales
Type of site
Photography website
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersDept 1706, 43 Owston Road, Carcroft, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. DN6 8DA
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Area servedUnited Kingdom and Ireland
OwnerGeograph Project Limited
Created byGary Rogers
URLwww.geograph.org.uk
AdvertisingNo
CommercialNo
RegistrationRequired for contributing photos
Users13,449 contributors as of 29 November 2021
Launched6 March 2005 (2005-03-06)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
Written inPHP

Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. Photographs in the Geograph collection are chosen to illustrate significant or typical features of each 1 km × 1 km (100 ha) grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system. There are 332,216 such grid squares containing at least some land or permanent structure (at low tide), of which 281,131 have Geographs.

Geographs are being collected for all parts of Great Britain, Isle of Man and Ireland. The Channel Islands fall outside Britain's grid system, but may be geographed using their local UTM grid.

The project is sponsored by the Ordnance Survey, and extracts from the OS Landranger 1:50,000 scale maps illustrate the grid square pages. Geograph Project Limited is a charity registered in England and Wales, and the name Geograph is trademarked.