John,
There's a way of salvaging your work, keeping what Chris called "a celebration of beauty", and providing the useful service. Keep the thumbnails (possibly making them a little smaller so they would fall under "fair use") and just make each one of them a link to the original site.
This is, over time, labor-intensive, as anyone who's ever managed a big link list knows. Some pages will go kaput, others will move around, others will change content -- it's not much fun. The rate of decay currently seems to be something like 8 to 10% in 6 months. And yes, it's a real shame good sites go kaput -- make that "it's infuriating" -- something alas which we can do nothing about (short of picking the very best up and hosting them ourselves if we can).
An index by coördinates would be simple to set up, useful for some, and thus further value-added. Also, fortunately, they ought not change....
There's a way of salvaging your work, keeping what Chris called "a celebration of beauty", and providing the useful service. Keep the thumbnails (possibly making them a little smaller so they would fall under "fair use") and just make each one of them a link to the original site.
This is, over time, labor-intensive, as anyone who's ever managed a big link list knows. Some pages will go kaput, others will move around, others will change content -- it's not much fun. The rate of decay currently seems to be something like 8 to 10% in 6 months. And yes, it's a real shame good sites go kaput -- make that "it's infuriating" -- something alas which we can do nothing about (short of picking the very best up and hosting them ourselves if we can).
An index by coördinates would be simple to set up, useful for some, and thus further value-added. Also, fortunately, they ought not change....
Bill
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