[Osmf-talk] attribution: board letter to facebook

Rihards rihards at nakts.net
Mon Oct 21 17:11:07 UTC 2019


On 21.10.19 19:39, Christoph Hormann via osmf-talk wrote:
> On Monday 21 October 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>> speaking of which, here's another example from them with no
>>> attribution to OSMF (yes I checked it's OSM data)
>>> https://twitter.com/Bridge_Activity/status/1185939655356829702?s=09
>>
>> How did you check it? For this picture I would pretty much expect all
>> of the data to come from natural earth (but I may be wrong).
> 
> Since the corporations with attention greed are probably listening:  We
> just know when you use OSM data, even at low zoom levels.  At z3 and
> above it can usually be determined reliably if OSM data is broadly
> used.  It becomes more difficult when OSM data is only used selectively
> for some features but not for others.
> 
> How we know?  Well, that is a business secret.  You will understand. ;-)

Overall I'd assume most of the violations to be accidental, and having
great relationship with our users possible - but I surely can relate to
frustration over repeat offenders.

To keep it manageable, I'd suggest only discussing the trouble with
Facebook in this thread :)

> And in the map Nuno referred to at the zoom level of the screenshot the
> water data is with near certainty from OSM.  The dark country marking
> however is not.
> 
> BTW not the only map from UN organizations that violates the OSM
> license:
> 
> https://www.unep-wcmc.org/about-us/partners
> http://watershedexploration.unep-wcmc.org/
> 
> (listed on 'lacking proper attribution' since 2015)
> 
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/-- 
 Rihards



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