[OSM-legal-talk] Merano Italy will be donating their data! CC-by-SA and donated data?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <20071030110040.yml4r0cao4w04scc at webmail.systemed.net>
        Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> Mikel Maron wrote:
>
>> It occurs to me that one simple, clean way to address attribution   
>> more generally is a new action in rails which simply lists all the   
>> users who have contributed within some bounding box. The map, and   
>> any other use of the data, could then link to that page.
>
> I like that idea. Maybe implemented as a link saying "Contributors",  
> next to "Permalink"?

People keep suggesting it, and I even half implemented it once, but
without any bounding box restriction.

What I keep coming back to though is, what exactly is the point? What
is anybody going to do with a list of several hundred random strings
that people have entered as their display names? It's entirely devoid
of any useful meaning.

Obviously imported data sets are a special case, but in general I think
the preferred solution should be some way in which the attribution can
be to the project rather than hundreds or thousands of individuals.

That way the attribution for any given area is much more sensible
and has some meaning - so "OpenStreetMap, AND" for NL, "OpenStreetMap,
Geobase" for CA etc.

On top of all which of course, it won't actually be accurate for the
reasons I gave in my reply to Mikel.

Tom

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