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

[Kathleen Lu]

I would support a banner or horizontal bar.
Operationally, the banner sounds easiest and quickest to implement since
the PR is already in place.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:25 AM Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>
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