[Talk-us] Address push part deux: tracking licenses, notifications, etc.

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 21:10:18 GMT 2012


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> Jeff Meyer wrote:
> > Ok... this is sort of an import question, but how do we / should we
> > credit each imported item with a link or tie to the appropriate use
> > statement / contributor?
>
> source= is just for "showing your working". It is not a means of providing
> attribution. That should be done on the wiki /Contributors page and (in
> extremis, for national-level imports) on osm.org/copyright. If the
> attribution is really long, link to a sub-page off /Contributors.


This is why I was advocating for a spreadsheet. There's a column in there
for license details and if it would help we could add an attribution
link/text column.

We could link directly this spreadsheet or spit it out into a wiki document
somewhere.
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