[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

[tim]

Looks great! I like their markers too! (it seems like they are using
npe maps to geocode them, sweet)

as for tiles:
Schuyler set up a hypercube serving WMS mapnik osm tiles  (mercator
projected, i think) for this purpose.

Metacarta shows how to use:
http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/?zoom=10&lat=6721426.90423&lon=-137619.35881&layers=B00

On 10/22/07, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> On 10/22/07, Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li> wrote:
> >   Oxford University's new website launched this morning.  Some of us
> >   noted that they are using OSM data (in fact, pulling tiles straight
> >   off the tile server) without attribution.  Was this cleared in any
> >   way, or are they just abusing the free nature of OSM?
> >
> >   http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX2+6UD&location=Wolfson%20College&id=490
>
> It looks like they fixed that up pretty quickly... "Mapping data
> provided by OpenStreetMap under an open license."
>
> >   Should we be flattered that the Oxford data is considered good
> >   enough to use and let it go, or should we try to get them attribute
> >   in some way?  Posted to legal because of the copyright violation,
> >   and crossposted to talk because there may be bandwidth implications
> >   for tile.openstreetmap.org.
>
> I think it's great that they're using the data  :)
>
> >   In my juvenile manner, I'd be tempted to serve something other than
> >   the requested tile if the referrer is www.ox.ac.uk - but perhaps it
> >   would be best to be grownup and try to come to a proper
> >   arrangement.
>
>
> Dan
>
> --
> Dan Karran
> dan at karran.net
> www.dankarran.com
>
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