Geograph Images v2.3

Introduction

Geograph Images is a greasemonkey script that adds nearby Geograph images to geocaching.com cache pages. It works with Firefox and Opera browsers.

Geograph is a project that aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the country. There are currently three Geograph websites covering Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands and Germany.

Screenshot

Also shown in this screenshot is the Owner Images section added by the Geothumbs script.

Operation

If nearby Geograph images are available a new Geograph Images section is added to the cache page. By default a single row of the three nearest images is shown. More images can be shown by clicking on the (more) link. Each click will add another row until all the available images are shown or a maximum of 30 is reached.

Clicking an image will pop-up the full size image in a 'lightbox' feature. Clicking the sides of this full size image will allow you to move between all the Geograph images currently shown. Additionally if you also have the Geothumbs script installed you will be able to seamlessly move between all the Geograph images, cache owner images and log images on the cache page.

Clicking the text description next to the image thumbnail will bypass the 'lightbox' and open the Geograph page for this image.

The Geograph website home page can be accessed by either clicking the Geograph Images header or the graphical icon at the top right of the image table.

Options

For Firefox users a menu option is provided to configure Geograph Images to your preferred operation. The menu is accessed by selecting Tools > Greasemonkey > User Script Commands. The Geograph Images options here will allow you to:

Select the number of images per row (1-4)
Select the number of rows initially displayed (1-4)

Opera users will need to edit the parameters at the top of the script if they wish to change the default settings.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Barry Hunter at Geograph Britain and Ireland for his help and permission to access the Geograph data.

Firefox installation:

To install click on the icon above and click on the "Install" button. If this doesn't work, right-click on the icon, and select "Install User Script". If you don't see the menu option, click on the icon to open the file in a new tab (or window), and select "Install This User Script" from the Tools menu. Please ensure that you've installed the Firefox Greasemonkey add-on before attempting to install this script.

Opera installation:

First enable Opera to run user scripts by selecting Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options, and choose a directory where you want to put this script. After doing this right-click on the icon above and select "Save Linked Content As..." and save it in your chosen directory.

This script has been tested to work with:

Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 with Greasemonkey 0.9.2
Opera 11.10 (no Geograph Images menu option available)

Version History:

v2.3
Updated to work with Geocaching.com site changes made on 11th May 2011
Fix Firefox 4 greasemonkey function error messages

v2.2
Added automatic check for new script updates. Thanks to Lil Devil for the code.

v2.1
Fix lightbox image descriptions when geothumbs isn't installed.

v2.0
Updated to work with Geocaching.com site changes made in June 2010.

v1.0
Initial version.

For support please contact us via our geocaching profile - Gary & Jane