[OSM-legal-talk] attribution of data for use on TV

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 23:19 -0500,
telegee at hushmail.com wrote:

> My question is what type of attribution is appropriate? I have no 
> problem informing my end-users where I get the data. More than 
> happy to do that. However, do I need to attribute while the 
> application is used on-air? Screen real estate is precious on a TV 
> screen. Plus, some clients are un-easy about attribution during the 
> broadcast. Attributing during the credits roll at the end of the 
> broadcast would be doable I suppose. Anyway, I want to do what is 
> right here. So, do I simply attribute in the app and let my TV 
> users know I'm using OpenStreetMap data OR do I need to attribute 
> on-air? I could easily add an OpenStreetMap attribution in the 
> splash screen and about box.

I've noticed almost all the local broadcasters use Google Earth for
this, and display a small, translucent Google logo in the corner of the
map view.  I imagine a little "osm.org" in the corner similar to
Google's attribution would work for that format.


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