The project is sponsored by the Ordnance Survey, and extracts from the OS Landranger 1:50,000 scale maps illustrate the grid square pages.

[7] As an incentive to increase coverage, participants are awarded a point each time they contribute the first photograph classified as a geograph to a grid square.

Some participants combine geographing with other outdoor location sports such as letterboxing, geocaching, trigpointing, benchmarking, and peak bagging.

Some of the common themes for geograph photos include: As of February 2024, the project had over 7.5 million photographs from over 13,800 contributors,[3] covering over 98% of Great Britain and over 47% of Ireland.

The annual winners were; The Geograph site was awarded the Yahoo (UK & Ireland) Travel Find of the Year 2006.

[32] UK Wikimedian of the Year 2012 – Honourable Mention[33] On 17 February 2010, Geograph British Isles organised its first conference for contributors to the project.

[35] It took place at the Ordnance Survey head office at Romsey near Southampton and was reported by geography-related media.

It took stock of where the project was at that time, as it neared 3 million submissions; and put forward potential solutions that could secure its financial future in the years ahead.

Subjects discussed included funding of the project, educational use of the images and the moderation procedures applied to contributors' submissions.

Subjects discussed included the quality of submitted photographs and titles, the production of high-quality descriptions, local studies, as well as the funding of the project, educational use of the images and the moderation procedures applied to contributors' submissions as in 2013.

The various techniques include (with examples): Contributors can choose to add meta-data to each image, in the form of Subject and Tags, to go along with the geo-tagging by location.

[44] There is an Android app named Geograph Alerts in the Google Play store which will track your current location and inform you if you enter a grid square which you have not yet photographed.