Remove broken phototour dataset - #9580
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Resolves the following tickets:
The first issue quoted above has the latest information on this ticket, but in brief: The phototour dataset download URLs have been broken for several years. The domain is now owned by an unrelated party, and while currently the download returns a 404, this is a potential security issue pointing users to download uncontrolled files.
Given the recent update on the direction of development, i.e., dataset features are not going to be prioritised, the simplest solution here is to remove the phototour dataset entirely (instead of recreating and hosting the data). Even if you do not consider this a legitimate security risk, there's been quite a lot of time generated by this issue over the years, both in terms of people running into issues attempting to use the dataset, and in terms of security scanning software flagging this.
Thanks!