[Talk-de] Fehlende Attribution bei Geocaching.com (und MapQuest?)

[Ronnie Soak]

So, kurze Rueckmeldung:

Ich habe www.Geocaching.com bzw. Groundspeak eine Email geschrieben,
ein wenig Honig um den Bart geschmiert und auf die fehlende
Attribution hingewiesen (Text im Anhang.)

Gestern kam knappe die Antwort, das sie sich fuer den Hinweis bedanken
und die Seite geaendert haben. Unter www.geocaching.com/map gibt es
jetzt eine ordentliche Attribution.

Fall geloest. Im Wiki habe ich die Kontaktaufnahme dokumentiert und
ebenfalls die positive Loesung angegeben.

Text der Mail war:


Hello Geocaching.com Team,

I'm writing you as a (random) representative of the OpenStreetMap
community to thank you for your bold step to switch the main map of
Geocaching.com to an OpenStreetMap-based system. We are very happy to
see more and more big players on the internet giving us a chance to
prove our crowd-sourced effort to be a real alternative to commercial
map data providers.

We are sure that this will be of mutual benefit to both Geocaching.com
and OpenStreetMap. You will gain a map that offers more detail in many
countries of the world than the commercial ones. Even in places like
the US or Canada, we often offer detail like hiking trails and
footpaths that is not available elsewhere. We, on the other hand, may
gain a lot of new contributors out of the already GPS-obsessed
Geocaching community. Which of course will lead to an even better map.

Although OpenStreetMap will not charge you anything for those maps and
you are free to implement a lot of new features using our data if you
like, there is one small requirement Geocaching.com has to fulfill to
legally use the maps. This little thing is attribution.
We request that your credit reads at least "Map data (c) OpenStreetMap
contributors, CC-BY-SA" on the actual map. Where possible,
'OpenStreetMap' should be hyperlinked to
http://www.openstreetmap.org/, and CC-BY-SA to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ .

You already do proper attribute all the other OSM-based layers of your
map, so I believe this is just a small error during your transition
process. You should be able to receive the proper attribution directly
through the API of you tile-provider MapQuest. Both this MapQuest
example: http://open.mapquestapi.com/sdk/js/v6.1.0/basic-map.html and
this Leaflet example: http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ show you how this
can be achieved.

I'm sure you will have that fixed in no time. It has been recorded in
our Wiki that you have been contacted now, so hopefully you should not
receive multiple of those mails. But as it goes with crowd sourced
efforts, we can't guarantee for all of our members. We are quite proud
of our work and therefore somewhat passionate about the attribution.

Best regards,

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Geocacher and OpenStreetMap contributor