[Osmf-talk] Mapbox Attribution

[Amanda McCann]

Hi all,

Thanks for bringing this to wider attention. I do have a conflict of interest on this, so I (like Mikel) am not legally allowed vote on board resolutions on this. Yous may have seen that the board recently passed new Attribution Guidelines, and this usage goes against this. We haven't left it at that. There's nothing to publicly report yet. 🙂

-- 
Amanda
OSMF Board member


On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:48 +02:00, Peter Barth <osm at won2.de> wrote:
> Hi Board, all,
> 
> Some days ago I noticed that Immowelt¹ (a German real estate site)
> is using OpenStreetMap data without attribution. The services are
> provided by Mapbox and while providing big attribution to Mapbox
> the one to OSM is missing.
> 
> I already brought this to the attention of Amanda and Tobias. However, 
> as this is one case of many where a customer of Mapbox is lacking 
> attribution and Mapbox' stand usually is "It's the customer's fault 
> not ours", I wanted to share my thoughts and request here.
> 
> 1. Mapbox is a corporate member that should take special care about 
> our values. It should be a role model.
> 
> 2. In every case involving missing OSM attribution using Mapbox map 
> services (and there had been many!), the Mapbox attribution was 
> present while OSM was not. I don't know the internal procedures for 
> customers, but I'd suppose it shouldn't be too hard for Mapbox to 
> enforce (or encourage) customers to take the same diligence for both 
> attributions.
> 
> 3. As the lack of attribtion in Mapbox maps is a common and repeating 
> topic that had been raised to the board in several cases, I'd like to 
> ask the board to be a bit more transparent about this topic, about the 
> directors' opinions and about potential handling of COIs.
> 
> Thanks for listening,
> Peda
> 
> [1] Example: https://www.immowelt.de/projekte/expose/k2ub432
> 
> 
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