Add Your Photos

What we are looking for:

• Photos of interpretive signs, exhibits, or text from areas administered by the National Park Service.

  • • For example, this includes: National Parks, National Historic Sites, National Monuments, National Memorials, National Battlefields, National Trails, National Lakeshores, and other public lands.

• Please make sure that your photo clearly shows the text and that the text is readable.

• Please do not upload photos with people in them. These photos will become part of a public photo collection, so we want to protect everyone’s privacy.  If you accidentally submit a photo with people in it, we will likely exclude it from the public photo collection.

• The Save Our Signs project reserves the right to exclude any submitted images in the public photo collection that may violate privacy or otherwise be out of scope or inappropriate for this project.

Important note about privacy:  

• • • We will not deliberately publish identifying information in the public photo collection, such as your name or email. However, we cannot guarantee anonymity due to technical and/or legal factors outside of our control. 

    • Photo uploads are collected using an institutional license of Qualtrics.  We are using Qualtrics because it does not require an email to upload photos.

    • The original photos volunteers uploaded might contain identifying information, such as EXIF data (exchangeable image file format). We are not deliberately collecting or sharing personal data, but the file you upload may contain identifying information unless you remove it. We will remove EXIF data (except photo orientation) prior to adding the photographs to the public SOS Archive page. 

    • Since these are photos of signs in public locations, we are extracting location data prior to EXIF removal, when available.  After review, it may be included in future photo releases. If you are concerned about the location embedded in your photos being sensitive, please remove it prior to submitting to this project.

    • To learn more about metadata in photos, see this guide from the University of Michigan.