[OSM-legal-talk] Audubon Birds Pro

Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi
Wed May 7 11:38:13 UTC 2014


Clifford Snow <clifford at ...> writes:

> 
> I noticed that the Android Audubon Birds Pro uses OSM maps for some of
their maps. Mostly it is just Google, but when adding sighting, OSM maps are
used. They are not attributing OSM, but do give Google attribution. I have
sent the developer, Green Mountain Digital a nice email asking for
attribution and pointing them to our licensing requirements. 
 
> Clifford-- 
>  <at> osm_seattle

Web site does have attribution on the map
http://natureshare.com/home.html#places
However, current interpretation is that geocoding location of features by
using OSM map makes the database where features are stored ODbL. Therefore
the NatureShare database about the bird observations should be ODbL too. By
reading the Terms Of Use of the site it obviously is not. Perhaps you should
send another nice email and inform them. Probably they will then use only
Google maps in their application.

-Jukka Rahkonen-




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