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Post by fuzzybelly on May 28, 2013 11:20:30 GMT -9
I've recently been going through my caches pages and sprucing them up with URL images. Unfortunately as I go back to a few pages that I've already completed a couple weeks ago, I find that many of them have dissapeared.
Can anyone tell me whats going on with that. I'ts very frustrating to have to go back and try to find the same image I labored so hard to find.
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Post by akgh519 on May 28, 2013 12:52:04 GMT -9
Could they be copy right protected and GS is deleting them?
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 28, 2013 16:18:20 GMT -9
Rule #12 of the internet... "thou shalt not link to another's image via url". Why... 1- The webmaster at the hosting site may delete, replace, modify, or move the image. (imagine linking to an image on a less-than-legit site only to have the webmaster replace the image with something pornographic... then you'd have a porn image on your cache). 2- If the webmaster of the hosting site is running good traffic stats, he'll quickly notice that he getting download pointers coming from geocaching.com and may want to know why... of he may enact reason #1 above. 3- Using url pointers to someone else's site is akin to stealing by running an extension cord to your neighbor's garage without him knowing. Many sites pay bandwidth fees, and you're pulling bandwidth from their site. 4- People visiting your site (or cache page) can see where the url for an image is pointing to, hence they'll know you are lifting it from somewhere else. 5- You have less control over how the image looks and no control over the image availability. What you should do... Download the image to your own computer. Open it in an image editor. Change it by at least 20% to clear most copyright issues. Save and rename the image. Upload the image to a photo hosting site (many free ones out there) or upload it to the cache's photo gallery or the photo gallery of one of your old, archived caches. Now, use the url of your new hosting site to place the image in your cache listing. Everyone be happy!
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 28, 2013 17:02:51 GMT -9
Thank you SSO JOAT. I didn't understand a lot of it but it sounds like I should go back and take the images off the cache pages.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 28, 2013 18:10:32 GMT -9
Scott, what kind of images? Your own photos? Images from other websites?
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 28, 2013 19:47:42 GMT -9
Thank you for the question Mike.
I'm grabbing Images from Yahoo. For instance, I search Talkeetna, alaska Images, or, smart apes images. I then right click on the image and select, properties. I highlight the url code and copy it, then paste it to my cache page.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 28, 2013 20:28:52 GMT -9
Yep, Scott is correct. If you link to images on other sites, you have no control over whether the links change and your images won't load. The only "fail safe" hosting method is to upload the images to geocaching.com to perhaps one of your archived cache pages and using those urls in your html code.
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Post by polgera on May 30, 2013 15:34:07 GMT -9
Thanks for this question and these answers. Very informative.
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Post by NorthWes on Jun 13, 2013 18:09:53 GMT -9
Excellent discussion. Learning curve is helped with this kind of discussion.
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cavyguy
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Post by cavyguy on Jul 5, 2013 11:58:34 GMT -9
Thanks for the good info
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Post by akgh519 on Jul 6, 2013 11:53:53 GMT -9
I have been learning a lot about this on my newer cache pages. Some work...some don't. Some will come over to the page with a black background and they had a white one when I found them on the net. I go find something else when that happens. I even found a pic that blinks and it came over to my cache page too! Haven't figured out how to get text blinking HTML to work yet...but will keep trying!!
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Post by barnacle9 on Jul 8, 2013 20:59:53 GMT -9
I like the option of using an archived cache page for hosting images you don't necessarily want in the cache photo gallery.
on another note - hmmm . . . do I sense puzzle potential here??? Really, it's not much different than any other remote host, but it could be interesting to have some interaction with an archived cache . . .
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Post by barnacle9 on Jul 8, 2013 21:29:12 GMT -9
Something to consider: Uploading to photo gallery on a cache page re-sizes the image, whereas uploading to a free host elsewhere may preserve the original image dimensions/resolution. This can be important when choosing a background image - pictures in cache galleries at geocaching.com tile ungracefully as background images on cache pages . . .
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Post by SSO JOAT on Jul 8, 2013 22:11:44 GMT -9
Note that GC automatically resizes anything over 600 pixels in a dimension or 125KB in size. If you have a bigger pic, it's much better to do the resizing and compression yourself with photo editing software so that you can be sure of the result. Then upload it to a GC image gallery or to a free hosting site, such as photobucket.
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Post by akgh519 on Jul 9, 2013 16:26:16 GMT -9
Thanks for all the thoughts and things to ponder!!!!
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Frozen Buns
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Post by Frozen Buns on Nov 5, 2013 11:40:17 GMT -9
Best and quickest way is to save it as a QR code and picture to your profile and upload to the page you want then others can scan it or click on the url. we make hundreds of QRs at a time so let me know if you need help.
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