[Talk-us] OSM map use w/o attribution at US News & World Report

[Harald Kliems]

Yeah, same for me: https://i.imgur.com/t7VuFDB.png
Maybe they fixed it *very* rapidly?
 Harald.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:37 AM Levente Juhász <jlevente89 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maybe I am missing something here but when I checked the link you provided
> I can see the proper attribution displayed in the Leaflet map. Screenshot:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EBzE3_0Lc6qVkKeYYhYbpz9CFrWOiGpc/view
>
> Cheers,
> Levente
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:51 PM Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net> wrote:
>
>> [trying this again]
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I've never done a use-without-attribution case before, would like to get
>> some suggestions before I dive in. I'm pretty sure this is a "substantial"
>> violation.
>>
>> It seems that US News & World Report is using OSM data/maps without
>> attribution in their Health website; my opthalmologist's page
>>
>> https://health.usnews.com/doctors/jared-younger-768369
>>
>> includes a map that I instantly recognized as OSM.  I make it a point to
>> enhance the maps every time I have an appointment somewhere, and I had
>> done
>> substantial cleanup of the maps in the northeast corner of Brookhurst &
>> Ellis in Fountain Valley.
>>
>> The *current* map doesn't look much like the one in the US News page:
>>
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62921271#map=18/33.69463/-117.95174
>>
>> because of my subsequent changes, but - among other things - the spurious
>> and incorrect segment of "Ellis Street" just below the main Ellis Street
>> was
>> leftover Tiger data that I'd fixed as well on changeset
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62921271
>>
>> Digging in, it seems that US News runs their own tile server (example
>> tile):
>>
>> https://maptile.usnews.com/tile0/12/707/1640.png
>>
>> so this is clearly them and not (say) Leaflet.
>>
>> Their terms & conditions page https://www.usnews.com/info/features/terms
>> has
>> a helpful email address copyrightagent at usnews.com that invites contacts
>> about copyright issues.
>>
>> So, I think I should be following the procedure here:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution
>>
>> with a polite note to them.
>>
>> Am I on the right track?
>>
>> Steve
>>
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