Geograph - community-driven geography
Data journalist Carl Bialik profiles a fascinating user-driven website that combines photography, geography and big data:
What do you think are some of the best uses for their data set? Would you contribute if Geograph expanded to your area?
Want to know what a website looked like in the past? The Internet Archive has you covered. But there's no Wayback Machine for the world, and how it looked.In the article he discusses Geograph's history and future plans, interviewing a dozen of the most prolific contributors along the way.
There is, however, one for the British Isles. It is called Geograph, and it contains photos of 97 percent of the 244,034 one-kilometer squares of Great Britain.
What do you think are some of the best uses for their data set? Would you contribute if Geograph expanded to your area?
It would be interesting to do other islands as well, maybe places like Iceland or parts of the South Pacific. Imagine doing something like Australia though: huge expanses and many sections geographically nondescript. That's a lot of work. Same goes for some urban blights like Lagos - miles and miles and miles of the same.