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

pmsg pmsg2010 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 15 07:54:15 UTC 2014


Hello Simon,

> From: Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>

> 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)?

The data was copied after 2012-12-11 as Seehafen Nord became disused
and the name was "updated":
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/197666438/history

> 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.

Sure that would be helpful for potential reusers. HRS is a big company
though and they should have enough money for lawyers...

Nils



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