[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution/Licensing for map derived from Standard OSM TIles
Peter Cooper Jr.
pete-openstreetmap-legal-talk-list at cooperjr.name
Sun Jan 3 02:53:20 UTC 2021
Hello! I tried asking my question on the Q&A Forum
<https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/78020/licensecrediting-my-edited-export-of-osm>
but didn't really get an answer in the past couple weeks, so I figured
I'd try here and maybe someone here can help me. I think that this
should be simple, but the more I read through the copyright pages the
more confused I get. It feels like how this all works should be obvious
to me but I'm just not understanding and want to make sure I'm doing
this right.
I'm working on making a map for directions to my house. I went to
OpenStreetMap.org, went to an area containing my house and the major
roads around it, and exported a box of it to an SVG file using the
"Share" functionality. I then opened that SVG in Inkscape and made some
modifications, like removing things I didn't need and adding more
specific labeling around the important landmarks on the way to my house.
For the most part these landmarks (road names, that a building where one
turns is made of brick, etc.) are in the underlying data but weren't
visible on the map I exported. And then I added a marker indicating my
house.
I want to post this edited SVG file on my web site alongside some
text-based directions I already have and wrote myself. While I can find
information on requirements if I use the underlying data myself to make
a map, or if I just present the standard tiles directly, I can't find
information on the case of starting with the standard tiles but then
modifying them.
1) What credit text do I need to put on (or next to) the map? Is it just
"Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation" like
if I was using the tiles directly, or do I need to make clearer somehow
which data is from OpenStreetMap and which edits I made?
2) Is there some license I need to publish this completed SVG file under
to comply with share-alike rules? I'm certainly fine with anyone using
the work I did, but I'm assuming (since I don't own all the data) I
can't just put the image into the public domain and be done with it? A
lot of the "derived database" stuff seems to assume you're doing
something more complicated than I am of just annotating the map image
which is part of what's confusing me.
While I don't think it matters for my specific questions, before making
the export I have made some fixes to the area near my house in the
standard iD editor to make the map more complete and accurate near me.
Thanks!
--
Peter
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