Posts Tagged: Flickr

25
Oct

2011

Cable Cars and Gondolas on Flickr

We’ve been undergoing a pretty significant rebuild/reorganization of the site and it’s progressing well. One thing we’ve wanted to do is improve our integration with Flickr and expand our offerings.

So while our Image Gallery Page lists only 12 different galleries, we’ve actually created a total of 35. They all can be viewed here. We’ll be adding direct links to those galleries to The Gondola Project shortly, but we wanted to share those galleries with you now.

The goal is to get the number of galleries up to around 50 or 60 in the near future.

In addition: You’ll notice that some galleries have been appended with a “(CC)” indicator. These are images that are licensed under the Creative Commons which means you can use them in your own work free of charge.

Galleries without the “(CC)” indicator, meanwhile, are populated with content that is fully copyright-protected.

One of the goals of this site has been to make the “discovery” of cable as easy as possible for researchers, students and reporters. Providing quick and easy access to hundreds of CC-licensed images helps reinforce that goal and we hope they help.

Note: Before using any CC-licensed images in your own work, it is essential that you familiarize yourself with The Creative Commons and understand what your legal obligations and/or restrictions are when using said images. CUP Projects is in no way libel or responsible for misuse of CC-licensed images in your work.



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01
May

2010

Flickr Galleries

As some of you already know, CUP Projects runs a Gondola Project Flickr Pool of images. Problem is, these pools are unwieldily beasts. Ours already has over 800 images in it and if we really put our minds to it, it could reach into the thousands.

Very hard to search, very hard to organize, very hard to use. It’s basically a shoebox with no order or logic. Moreover, plenty of wonderful images get lost in the shuffle due to copyright restrictions.

So to improve the functionality of our Flickr integration, we’ve started to use Flickr Galleries. Each gallery is a collection of up to 18 images curated under a specific theme. This way, we can group images in a variety of ways and offer commentary on the images. It also allows us to bring attention to wonderful, beautiful images that you’d otherwise not see on this site while still respecting the owners’ copyright.

This should make for a quicker, faster, easier and more enjoyable experience for everyone.

Right now we’ve only got 5 galleries created, but we’ll add to them over time. This is going to take a lot of time, however, so we’d love to have your help. If you’ve got a Flickr account (basic accounts are free), have a few minutes a week to spare and want to help, please drop us an email at gondola (a) creativeurbanprojects (dot) com to find out how you can pitch in. Alternatively, just send us some FlickrMail from within Flickr itself.

Check out our Image Gallery page, to grab the links to the various collections!



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26
Dec

2009

The Gondola Project on Flickr

Since no one on Boxing Day really wants to spend their time learning about anything, and no one has any real need to go anywhere by transit (hopefully), I’ll lay off today.

Instead, I’d just like to draw your attention to the new Flickr badge on The Gondola Project sidebar. Clicking it will take you to The Gondola Project group hosted by Flickr.

As you know there’s scant research out there on Cable Propelled Transit. The Gondola Project Flickr group exists to help alleviate that problem. It allows people to browse images of CPT from around the world. We already have dozens of members and hundreds of photos, but we’re always looking for more.

This is how research is going to be done more and more in the future. One guy sitting in a cubicle reading a report that no one else has ever read (or ever will) just can’t compete against a whole world of people pulling together in a common direction.

Get involved, we’d love your help.



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