Really sad to see this. In the UK and Ireland there is a superb community project, Geograph (http://www.geograph.org.uk/ http://www.geograph.org.uk/), which col

Really sad to see this. In the UK and Ireland there is a superb community project, Geograph (http://www.geograph.org.uk/ http://www.geograph.org.uk/), which collects geotagged photos and makes them available under an open licence. For example, I've integrated it into my bike routeplanner at http://cycle.travel/map http://cycle.travel/map so that you can see photos of a trail before riding it, so you know what sort of surface to expect. Panoramio was the nearest to a worldwide equivalent. (There's Mapillary, of course, but their base API access is $99/month. OpenStreetView looks promising but it's early days for them.)