page_title: Geograph Britain and Ireland
section_title: Types of image
hierarchical_section_title: Geograph Britain and Ireland / Types of image
caption_attribution_description: English: Happy in the Snow
context_page_description: Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, initiated 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 grid square in the Ordnance Survey National Grid and the Irish national grid reference system.
  There are 331,957 such grid squares containing at least some land. Each page uses a Geo microformat.
  Geographs are being collected for all parts of Great Britain 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.
context_section_description: Geograph images are classified by site moderators as:
  Geograph – an image which usefully illustrates or characterises the area in which it was taken;
  Accepted – an image which adds useful information about a square but which does not meet the requirements of a geograph; this includes close-ups, interiors, aerial shots, photos taken from outside the grid square, moveable objects that can't be shown on maps and silhouetted images; Previously 'supplemental', now split into subcategories of 'Close Look', Inside', 'Aerial', 'Cross Grid' and 'Extra'
  Rejected – an image that does not meet the requirements of the Geograph Project.
  There is a special classification of image that is known as a First Geograph – the first image uploaded of a particular grid square which meets the requirements to be a geograph. Later a new system of points, where contributors can gain Second, Third and Fourth points, was introduced. Similar to the first point system, this time a contributor gains a point depending on how many other geographers have submitted geographs to that square. For example, a square with one geograph by one contributor would have second, third and fourth points available. The same situation would apply if the first contributor has submitted many geographs in that square. The relevant date is when the photo was submitted, rather than taken.
  A contributor gains a TPoint (Time-gap Point) by submitting a photo that was taken over five years after the most recent image for that square. A contributor can also gain a TPoint by submitting an historic photo to a square that was taken at least 5 years away from any other photograph in the square.
  The site also provides a count of the number of grid squares each contributor has photographed (Personal Points)
  Some of the common themes for geograph photos include:
  Physical landscape
  Human land use
  Built environment
  Social interaction
  Geology
  Flora and fauna
  Local history
caption: Typical wildlife supplemental image
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