[OSM-legal-talk] openstreetmap in some flash advertising

[Mike Dupont]

I found more tiles used :
http://wap.mobilespy.de/img/map1.jpg

And here is an article that shows another osm map :
*Mobile Spy/Spymigo:* Muss auf beiden Handys installiert sein.
<http://www.chip.de/ii/180024129_e9575be830.jpg>
http://www.chip.de/artikel/Handy-orten-Zwischen-Abzocke-und-Illegalitaet-2_32415779.html
http://www.chip.de/ii/180024129_e9575be830.jpg


On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Mike Dupont <
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:

> well the flash image moves around and shows more data. but ok. maybe they
> are not tiles, but one tile. anyway..
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Mike Dupont wrote:
>>
>>> I just saw this , very interesting.
>>>
>>> http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/11/httpmobilespyde-is-using-unattributed.html
>>> Mobile Spy and Akamai are using unattributed osm tiles in flash ads.
>>>
>>
>> More precisely, "Mobile Spy is using a single image of ca. 250x100 pixels
>> that looks like it might come from OpenStreetMap in an advert". I don't see
>> evidence for the plural but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
>>
>> Akamai (and edgesuite.net) are just content delivery networks; they are
>> "using" that image in the same fashion as blogspot.com are "using" it
>> after you created the page you have linked to above ;)
>>
>> Legally they might have to attribute OSM but I'm really thankful they
>> don't, because what they have to sell is some shady software that claims to
>> be able to "locate" people when in reality it's just an x-ray pornocam style
>> rip-off and I would't want to see OSM mentioned in that context.
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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