[OSM-newbies] Referencing Photos

[Serge Wroclawski]

Short answer: Not at the moment.

Long answer: It was tried in the past, but doesn't fit the OSM model, and
it's been abandoned with cause.

In the future there may be ways to bring this back, but additional software
would need to be written.

-Serge
On May 9, 2013 8:21 AM, "Tac Tacelosky" <tacman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there proper way to reference photos?  In particular, I'm thinking of
> retail outlets, pictures of storefronts that clearly show the name and may
> indicate type of store.
>
> Obviously, Creative Common-licensed photos would be better (or ODbL), but
> are they a requirement?  If there's a public domain photo hosted on a
> commercial site (e..g Flickr), would that preclude it from being referenced
> in OSM?
>
> Wikipedia Commons is obviously one good source:
>
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eat_Berthas_Mussels,_Fells_Point_MD_(1).jpg
>
> Tac
>
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