[Osmf-talk] Turning off services and/or adding banners to protest against the EU Copyright Directive

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 18 March 2019, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >
> > Not quite sure about this one.  The idea of propagating the protest
> > to users of osm.org tiles seems fine (it is just for a day) but
> > just disabling the service without providing information why seems
> > suboptimal.  Delivering tiles with a message would seem the better
> > solution if feasible (and would promise some nice screenshots of EU
> > institutions protesting the directive...)
>
> I think from the point of view of operations this is going to be
> a non-starter - unless you're volunteering to answer thousands of
> angry emails and bug reports of course.

An alternative which would be less universally obtrusive and could be 
better tuned in intensity would be an in-the-map message generated 
through a map style modification.

Like:

https://github.com/imagico/osm-carto-alternative-colors/commit/4a807e18dab2b6e369772e8d06433f5776a7d151

Resulting in:

http://www.imagico.de/files/eu-copyright-osm.png

at z2 to z6.

This would be a matter or rolling out the style modification, 
re-rendering z2 to z6 and reverting to the normal style and 
re-rendering again afterwards.  Not sure how much work that would be.

This would maintain the map usability with only minor limitations at z2 
to z6.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/