[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

[Steve Chilton]

Grand to see OSM used in what is presumably quite a high profile site,
and now attributed with links back.
Aside from the tile traffic issue, it does highlight the
completeness/accuracy aspect of OSM data. With such a window on the
project perhaps we should work hard to ensure the data is even better
than it obviously already is. I suggest an editing and mapping blitz
concentrating on the area inside the Oxford ring road. Anyone could
contribute, but particularly local OSMers. Just by looking at the map I
can see for instance that the road into town from Magdalene Bridge is
tagged as highway=secondary, yet named A420 (now I could change that but
am not 100% sure which is correct). Also Walton Street is
highway=secondary and suddenly stops and becomes
unclassified/residential - unlikely in practice, but again I don't have
a definite answer. Would someone care to take on task of local
checking/editing as indicated? I would be quite happy to fine-tooth
visually edit/check the data from my remote PC and feed data (off-list)
to check further on if required.
Similarly, Wolfson College is mapped in detail (by socks himself?) but
some other colleges are not. Without Yahoo coverage it might be
difficult to map buildings, but would someone take a list of all
colleges and ensure that they are all at least mapped as locations and
labelled.
Incidentally could someone explain/check why the ring road has A40 in
text as well as in shields (as do other trunk/green roads). When ref=foo
was changed to shields I thought the text in line was dropped. Are they
from old segments perhaps, which I have seen occur in my local area?
Overall though excellent shop window, showing the perceived value of OSM
data, which with a bit of work could be even more impressive.

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Gower
Sent: 22 October 2007 12:41
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Oxford University use without
attribution

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:22:27PM +0100, Stephen Gower wrote:
>   Oxford University's new website launched this morning.  Some of us
>   noted that they are using OSM data (in fact, pulling tiles straight
>   off the tile server) without attribution.

  OK, attribution has appeared since I started composing that post
  but the question of if there is an implication for tile.osm still
  stands, as does the flattery that that map is better than Google's!

  s

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