[Talk-us] FBI using OSM on website... without attribution

[Denis Carriere]

It's not Leaflet's fault the attribution is incorrect, their website is
disabling the default attribution and adding a custom one.

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*Denis Carriere*

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Dale Puch <dale.puch at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Dale Puch
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:36 PM, David Kewley <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. Ideas for contacting someone who might
>> be able to help with this issue:
>>
>>    - Call the national FBI number: (202) 324-3000 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 from https://www.fbi.gov/conta
>>    ct-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,
>>    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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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