Geograph Britain & Ireland

Name

Geograph Britain & Ireland

Legal name

Geograph Project Limited

Website

https://geograph.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crowdsourced Geographic Photography

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (54137), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro industry

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Local & City Guide Content Aggregators

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)

Keywords

• Crowdsourced photography
• Geographic image database
• Grid square mapping
• Creative commons imagery
• Volunteer photo platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Doncaster

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Support: The organization accepts donations to support operations. Geograph is a charitable project (registered charity no. 1145621) and relies on volunteer contributions and public support.
2. Sponsorship: Ordnance Survey provides sponsorship, particularly for educational initiatives. The platform is free for all users.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Geograph Britain & Ireland operates a free, web-based crowdsourced photography platform that invites volunteer photographers to submit geotagged images for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. The repository of 8.3+ million images is published under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence and supports browsing, search, map visualisation, and grid-square coverage tracking. The platform is operated by Geograph Project Limited, a registered charity, and sustained through donations and Ordnance Survey sponsorship.

Product overview

Geograph Britain & Ireland is a single, unified crowdsourced photography platform operated by Geograph Project Ltd (a UK-registered charity). The platform enables contributors to submit geographically representative photographs for every grid square in Great Britain and Ireland. The ecosystem includes related regional sites (Geograph Ireland, Geograph Channel Islands, Geograph Germany) and an educational version (Geograph For Schools), all sharing the core platform infrastructure and Creative Commons licensing model. The platform is also utilized by the Beautiful Places AI initiative as a primary image data source for AI-powered beauty analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Geograph Britain & Ireland Platform A crowdsourced geographic photography platform that invites volunteer photographers to submit geotagged images for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. The platform hosts 8.3+ million images contributed by over 14,000 contributors since 2005, with search, browse, and coverage map tools for discovering and submitting geographically representative photographs.
• Geograph For Schools An educational version of the Geograph platform designed for use in schools, providing geographic learning materials and visual resources for teaching geography, local history, and environmental studies to students.
• Geograph Channel Islands A regional variant of the Geograph platform covering the Channel Islands, sharing the same database infrastructure and Creative Commons licensing model as the main British and Ireland project.
• Geograph Germany An international variant of the Geograph concept covering Germany, extending the crowdsourced grid-square photography model beyond the British Isles.

Quantifiable outcome

• 85.4% coverage of Great Britain and Ireland
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Beautiful Places AI Community Interest CompanymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 October 2025Beautiful Places AI CIC launched an initiative to map 1 million beautiful places worldwide using Geograph's 8 million-image repository with AI analysis for conservation and urban planning.
• Ordnance SurveycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrdnance Survey provides sponsorship for Geograph, particularly supporting educational initiatives. The partnership enables use of OS mapping data and positioning for geotagging photos.
• Geograph Channel IslandsminorOthersRelated site extending the Geograph concept to Channel Islands, sharing the same database infrastructure.
• Geograph GermanyminorOthersRelated international site extending the Geograph concept to Germany.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/geograph_bi
• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=Y6QNJDEQ58Y
• Facebookfacebook.com/geograph.org.uk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/geograph-project-limited

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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