[OSM-legal-talk] HRS.com uses OpenStreetMap-data without credit

[Simon Poole]

Do you have any indication from when the data may be? At least roughly
pre/post licence change (pre-licence change data would naturally pose a
number of questions)?

In general attribution of OSM in the context of non-map uses is not
particularly good and hasn't been policed at the same level. We probably
need to do the same as for map and give a couple of examples of what we
would be happy with.

Simon

Am 12.03.2014 13:04, schrieb pmsg:
> Hello,
> 
> last year, I discovered a strange result when searcing for a hotel
> near "Rostock Seehafen" at HRS.com: One suggestion is "point of
> interest - Rostock Seehafen Nord (Außer Betrieb)". That is the name of
> a railway station, as it was once incorrectly tagged in OpenStreetMap.
> Incorrect because "außer Betrieb" means "no service" and should never
> have been tagged as part of the name.
> 
> It can easily be verified that HRS.com uses names of railway stations
> in Germany from OSM for their search. Try also Genshagener Heide,
> which was/is also tagged incorrectly in OSM. There are several more
> obvious examples of railway stations in Germany.
> 
> I cannot find any credit of OpenStreetMap at HRS.com. I assume they
> are breaching the license. I did inform the company about my
> assumption on February 18th via office at hrs.de and received no answer.
> 
> What steps could be taken? It would be great if HRS.com would add
> proper attribution and pay OSMF a compensation for the license breach.
> However, I'm not sure whose rights were infringed, if any.
> 
> Regards, Nils
> 
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