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

[Steve Friedl]

Hmmm.  Yesterday I had found proper attribution (via Leaflet) in other non-health areas of their website and was putting together more comprehensive notes for them, but today I see my original health.usnews.com link *does* work (as do links for other doctors), so I assume this was just a website glitch that’s since been fixed.

 

Never mind 😊

 

Steve

 

From: Harald Kliems <kliems at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 8:56 AM
To: Levente Juhász <jlevente89 at gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net>; OpenStreetMap talk-us list <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] OSM map use w/o attribution at US News & World Report

 

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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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