[Osmf-talk] attribution: board letter to facebook

[Kathleen Lu]

Nuno, do you honestly prefer attribution further down the page than behind
an (i) on the map? I think that the (i) on the map is much more likely to
inform a user about the *map*.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:33 PM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another interesting thing is that facebook doesn't have a issue for
> visibly attributing Wikipedia and Freebase. Scroll down at this example
> page at
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madeira-Natural-Park/113857212034096?rf=152605491445324
>
> or
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peneda-Ger%C3%AAs-National-Park/104009266303334?rf=112523248763549
>
> Printscreen of the visible attribution. https://i.ibb.co/8Y5V2dp/aaaa.jpg
>
> So the issue is either our license or them and mapbox not knowing about
> attribution (which i highly doubt since they are corporate members of OSMF
> and been repetitively been asked to comply). We will probably never know,
> since they never reply publicly neither does the board.
>
>
> Às 07:18 de 10/10/2019, Rihards escreveu:
>
> We all are overjoyed when OSM data is used more and more.
> And we all are happy when big players like Facebook use OSM data.
>
> Sometimes in a rush they might miss properly attributing OSM, and
> getting to somebody who can fix it is hard (it's a big company after all).
>
> Perhaps OSMF members can ask the board for a favour - sending a short,
> polite letter to Facebook, asking to give mappers a fuzzy feeling and
> add a proper attribution?
>
> Discussing multiple steps (a direct letter first, then a public letter,
> then one directed to their copyright contacts etc) is likely out of
> scope for this thread.
>
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