[Talk-us] FBI using OSM on website... without attribution
Rihards
richlv at nakts.net
Fri Jun 30 19:42:12 UTC 2017
On 2017.06.30. 22:37, Dale Puch wrote:
> A better route is to contact http://leafletjs.com/ since they are
> providing the actual map data thru their script. Also they probably do
> so for lots of other sites.
> Leaflet does attribute Openstreetmap at the bottom of their main page
> page though.
leaflet is a library anybody can use - i assume they won't be happy
about people bothering them same as apache httpd project wouldn't be.
> Dale Puch
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:36 PM, David Kewley <david.t.kewley at gmail.com
> <mailto:david.t.kewley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It looks like all the FBI field office sites are essentially part of
> the national site, so they're all probably managed centrally. They
> all credit Leaflet in the map widget, and use OSM tiles without
> crediting OSM.
>
> It's been years since I've noticed webmaster links, like we used to
> have in the early days of the Web. Poking around, I couldn't find
> any technical feedback links at all on fbi.gov <http://fbi.gov>.
> Ideas for contacting someone who might be able to help with this issue:
>
> * Call the national FBI number: (202) 324-3000
> <tel:(202)%20324-3000> from
> https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fbi-headquarters
> <https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fbi-headquarters>.
> * Email one of the Community Outreach addresses available at
> various field offices ("Community Outreach" link near the top of
> each field office's page). E.g. for the San Francisco office,
> it's outreach.sf at ic.fbi.gov <mailto:outreach.sf at ic.fbi.gov>
> from https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sanfrancisco/community-outreach-1
> <https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sanfrancisco/community-outreach-1>.
> Some other field offices also have outreach email addresses.
> * On their "Businesses"
> page https://www.fbi.gov/resources/businesses
> <https://www.fbi.gov/resources/businesses>, they have a link for
> "Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy"
> at https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/piracy-ip-theft
> <https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/piracy-ip-theft>.
> While this issue seems economically tiny compared to the IP
> theft issues they tend to spend time on, it might be possible to
> get someone's help this way, since it's their own website.
> (Although the reporting methods I found went to other offices,
> not obviously directly to the FBI.)
>
> I won't be following up on these in the foreseeable future, but if
> someone else does follow up, please let us all know what happens.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Joseph R. Justice
> <jayarejay at gmail.com <mailto:jayarejay at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Mike Thompson
> <miketho16 at gmail.com <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver
> <https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver>
>
> See map in upper right part of page
>
>
> Does either the page for the Denver field office, and/or the
> nation-wide field office locator referred to in a separate post
> in this thread, include a "Contact the Webmaster" sort of link?
> Or even just a "Contact Us" link? Those would be a first
> obvious point of contact, I'd think...
>
>
>
> Joseph
>
>
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