Help / upload

Go to the upload page (also found the in side menu):
https://natureshare.org/upload

Click the CONNECT button in the Flickr box and you will be redirected to the official Flickr website.

Click the blue AUTHORIZE IT button.

Note, when you connect your Flickr account it says "including private content". Please be assured that NatureShare will only ever access and sync the photos you have already set to public visibility.

Source code is available for review here:
https://github.com/natureshare/natureshare-scripts/blob/master/actions/importers/flickr.js

You should then return to the Upload page.

Go to Flickr and drag-drop your photos as you normally would:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/

Make sure photos is set to "Visible to everyone"

You must now annotate your photo with the metadata required by NatureShare.

Click on Add a description.

Add the structured text that describes your photo.

The description must start with "--- #natureshare.org".

Note, id, description, tags and license are not required. For example, if you do not know the id (species), remove that line from the file.

For assistance creating the metadata text, please go to:
https://natureshare.org/metadata

Here is an example description:

--- #natureshare.org
id: [Ranoidea citropa]
description: Small frog found on a track in Blue Mountains NP
collections: [blue_mountains_np]
tags: [frogs]
license: CC BY 4.0
---
Other comments not used by NatureShare.

When you have finished adding photos and descriptions, click the Upload button in the top right.

You can also add NatureShare descriptions to any number of your existing Flickr photos and videos.

Sometimes you may have more than one photo for the same specimen, at the same place and time.
It is easy to group them in to the same observation item.

To group a set of photos, give them all the same title.

Then, set the order of the photos by adding "~" (tilde) and a number at the end of each title.

For example, three photos would have the titles: filename, filename~2 and filename~3.

(The tilde can be found near the top-left of most keyboards.)

Note, only the first photo must have the NatureShare metadata description.

When you upload photos to Flickr, the original filename will be used as the title.

This means you can save some by first renaming the files on your computer or camera, before uploading them.

When you are finished uploading photos to Flickr, return to to NatureShare upload page.

Click on the SYNC NOW button.

Sync runs once per hour and can be a slow process.

Your computer may also cache this website for up to one day.

Please return later to see your photos appear on NatureShare.