[OSM-newbies] Appropriate use of OSM?

[Caroline Ford]

On 04/02/2008, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org> wrote:
> El Lunes, 4 de Febrero de 2008, Andrew Harris escribió:
> > Hi, couple of questions:
> >
> > 1) [...] OSM would be a perfect tool to create and display a reasonably
> > detailed (building level) map of our campus... but is this appropriate?
>
> Absolutely yes!
>
> Just remember to add a tiny little legal notice saying that the map comes from
> openstreetmap, and that it's licensed under CC-by-sa. That notice can be in
> the same page as the maps, or in the "legal" page of your site.
>
> Besides that, you're free to use OSM's maps wherever you want, for whatever
> you want.
>
> > 2) Assuming there are no obstacles to (1), what about tagging?
> [...]
> > description: University of Melbourne
> > name: Law
> > building: yes
> > amenity : university
>
> That looks fine.
>
> > Are there other examples of this sort of 'campus' mapping on OSM? - I
> > couldn't find any.
>
> I got some friends working on my city campus:
>
> http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=40.4460&lon=-3.7294&zoom=16&layers=0B00F000F
>
I have plans to do the local housing estates..

Caroline