<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Alex Barth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" target="_blank">alex@mapbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to start pushing again on the OSM attribution mark.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Clearly. :-)<br></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
I think that the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The logo is pretty.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The logo is pretty and the idea is bad for OpenStreetMap. At the core, the idea of a minimalist attribution mark reduces the prominence of (eliminates) both "OpenStreetMap" and "Contributors" and those are both of core importance to OpenStreetMap. I see the idea of replacing readable / searchable / indexable text of the actual name of the project, with a few pixels of "magic beans" as a fundamentally broken idea. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">"Rebranding" is expensive in terms of the volunteer hours it would take to execute, and the legal and incidental costs are not trivial. The biggest cost, of course, is loss of customer goodwill. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This doesn't make sense to me. Not at all.<br><br>Would you change the
MapBox logo to the logo you propose for OpenStreetMap attribution?
Change the "by OSM" to "by MB" and you could have your brand new MB mark. No? Why not? :-)<br></div></div>