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<div>One thing that is missing to me is explicit mention that it is not<br></div><div>overriding ODBL or related laws and is not adding any legal<br></div><div>requirements.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If someone follows ODBL license or is in situation where following license<br></div><div>is not needed for some reason, they can legally do this.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe also mention that it is may be recommending more attribution than<br></div><div>bare minimum that is required by ODBL, so it is a safe solution that should<br></div><div>be also fine for any typical[1] project that is not hostile to OSM?<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] "typical" - especially for very small objects things gets trickier,<br></div><div>if you are making some special purpose map (tactile map for blind)<br></div><div>then attribution also needs to be adapted, if map is going to be used<br></div><div>in place where English is not understood in general you will definitely<br></div><div>need to translate attribution etc etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Draft_Attribution_Guideline">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Draft_Attribution_Guideline</a> claim<br></div><div>that smartphone has not enough space for attribution is clearly untrue.<br></div><div>But if you show OSM map on screen of size 1cm x 1 cm or similarly tiny<br></div><div>physical object then alternative attribution methods - that still comply with<br></div><div>ODBL - may be preferable.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 4, 2020, 21:41 by joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif">I appreciate the wik page "<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap">Community attribution advice" which was made by another community member. It seems to give good advice about how database users can comply with the attribution guidelines in a way that everybody* in this community can support.</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif">Please review the page and make any comments for improvement if needed:</span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"></span></span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_attribution_advice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_attribution_advice<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif">-- Joseph Eisenberg</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif">(*Note that "everybody" does not include the interests of corporations, which are not persons, but rather the interests of individual mappers and database users)</span></span><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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