[OSM-talk] mapnik layer and copyright of ways

[Dave Stubbs]

On 02/11/2007, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> > Noticed the mapnik layer now ascribes copyright to ways if you zoom in really
> > close.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> Osmarender has done this for a few months. There was some degree of
> controversy about it on the lists at the time, including the point you
> raised.
>
> Mapnik AFAIK doesn't, and if it does then I shall make my first foray
> into the XML file and remove it.
>

I doubt it can -- there's no "user" attribute in the planet, so it
doesn't know the mapper, and the import script doesn't pay any
attention to it even if it did exist.