# Looking for an internet-accessible photo database -- preferably free **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2007, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102 "2007-09-05T09:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enterprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/76d3ee/32.png) [@Enterprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enterprise)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/1 "2007-09-05T09:57:24Z")
For a university project, we’re looking for a means to put up a not inconsiderable database of photos, images, videos etc that must be accessible from the internet. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are a few requirements, most notably that it be possible to give descriptive searchable tags to photos and to provide them with source information (i.e., where’s the photo from). Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/2 "2007-09-05T11:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=Enterprise] For a university project, we’re looking for a means to put up a not inconsiderable database of photos, images, videos etc that must be accessible from the internet. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are a few requirements, most notably that it be possible to give descriptive searchable tags to photos and to provide them with source information (i.e., where’s the photo from). [/QUOTE] If you can host this yourself, use [Gallery2](http://gallery.menalto.com/). If you tag the images within the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) before uploading Gallery will create searchable tag indices. Your university services should be able to set this up pretty easily. Otherwise, you could use [Picasa](http://picasaweb.google.com), but the space may be an issue. Si ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/3 "2007-09-05T11:58:45Z")
[Flickr](http://flickr.com/) can be free if you only have a small number of photos, or it can cost you US$24.95 per year for unlimited storage – [http://flickr.com/help/limits/#28](http://flickr.com/help/limits/#28) You can tag photos, arrange them in sets and collections, geotag them so that they can be found on a world map, and comment on each others’ photos. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/4 "2007-09-05T12:29:10Z")
I use Photobucket for all my craft swaps on [Craftster.org](http://Craftster.org). So far, it keeps letting me upload more and more sub-albums, and it’s free! I have been very pleased with it. Flickr has a limit on how much you can upload for free each month, and you can only have three sub-albums without paying for more space. It seems that you can have lots of sub albums on Photobucket, and I sometimes upload tons of craft pics all at once. Here’s Photobucket: > **[Photo Storage](https://photobucket.com/)** > > Store your photos and videos online with secure storage from Photobucket. Available on iOS, Android and desktop. Securely backup your memories and sign up today! My album, to give you an idea of how much it can hold (thus far): > **[Photo Storage](https://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g116/LaughingLark/)** > > Store your photos and videos online with secure storage from Photobucket. Available on iOS, Android and desktop. Securely backup your memories and sign up today! Adding titles is easy, and I think you could put a small amount of text there. It wouldn’t hurt to try. 🙂 I don’t know if you can have videos on there, but Photobucket sure can help with your images. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enterprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/76d3ee/32.png) [@Enterprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enterprise)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/5 "2007-09-08T12:14:01Z")
Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try those out. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-internet-accessible-photo-database-preferably-free/418102/6 "2007-09-08T15:14:50Z")
I would highly recommend [Picasa](http://picasa.google.com/)… click on “features” and see what it’s got! It runs, as a free download, on your PC; when you are finished culling, rotating, annotating, fixing, etc you upload them to a web album. There is a cool feature called a Mapped Album (on the PC side of Picasa it is called Geo-caching), whereby you plot the location of the photo on a map. It works both with Google Maps and Google Earth. Here is the basic [example](http://picasaweb.google.com/picasateam/VegasWeekend/photo#map)