About Building Bolton
Welcome to the group!
Building Bolton is the title of an exhibition that will be appearing at Bolton Museum later in 2008.
The premise of the exhibition is to document and celebrate how the town and its people have changed over time.
Purpose of the group
This group is a tentative experiment related to the exhibiton, though potentially it could be a much longer term project
The idea would be to add images of old Bolton from the Museum and Archive collections so these can be viewed next to contemporary photos taken by Flickr members.
Mapping your pictures
Many Flickr users may be aware of a feature called "geotagging" whereby photographs can be given a geographic location that can be plotted on a Flickr or Google map (or Google Earth). Potentially all the images submitted in this group could be viewed using some kind of interactive map.
You can see these tags on the Bolton Museum images that have been put up so far. They are in a drop down list below the usual Flickr tags labelled "machine tags". The two tags basically give the latitude and longitude for each image.
A simple explanation and examples of how this all works can be found on the Geotagging Photographs page at the Bolton Museum web site
More technical information on this can be found on the Flickr API discussion
Suggestions please!
If you think that this project sounds interesting, or if you have any suggestions please get in touch via Flickrmail. In the meantime, anyone who has photographs on Flickr that have been taken in or around Bolton (Lancashire) is more than welcome to join up.
If enough people express an interest then this will increase the chances of the project going ahead.
At present the idea is at an embryonic stage and I have to confess that I'm not an expert Flickr user. Discussions will be set up to determine the best way to move forward and I hope to draw on the wisdom of the Flickr community (there are one or two power users already in the group) to help move things along.
No doubt the group rules will need a little finessing for starters.
Best Wishes
Perry Bonewell
Bolton Museum & Archive Service
http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/
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Additional Information
 This is a public group.
- View the group rules.
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