Geograph Ireland

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

[5] Photographs can be contributed by any registered user, although they must be approved by a panel of moderators before appearing on the website.

The main aim of moderation is to make the site 'classroom ready' so that inappropriate images are rejected.

[6] 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 5 February 2014, the main project had over 3.8million photographs contributed by almost 12,000 contributors, covering 96% of Great Britain and 39% of Ireland.