[Imports] [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>:
>> I want to take what Sam has said out of context here, so this isn't a
>> question of Geobase/Canvec, let's consider the wider issue of
>> attribution on imported data. Should the attribution be on the
>> geo-features (nodes,ways,relations), or on the changeset, on the wiki,
>> all three, or a combination?
>>
>> My take on it is that is should not be on the geo-features, but it
>> should be on the changeset (and the wiki if you like).
>
> I agree in principle, but for one thing the data donors are much
> happier to relicense their data for OSMs use if I can show them that
> the attribution can be seen from the main www page and it only takes
> enabling the data layer and clicking the object.  When our data is
> used elsewhere, there's always a link to OpenStreetMap and you can
> trace back the attribution.

Interesting. I wonder if that's an argument for changing the way the
data layer works? Some suggestions would be:

* When showing the way show the last username
* When showing the way history then make the username a link and the
timestamp a link to the changeset

Edited by ABS2006 at 2009-03-18T13:26:39Z

I'm not sure adding attribution tags just so that they show up in the
data browser is a proper reason, since we can easily change the data
browser to show other things!

Cheers,
Andy