[OSM-talk] Osmarender 5

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On 9/2/07, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

>Here are some of my thoughts on why showing the user name might actually be
>a good thing:

...

I think that it makes sense to keep the username on the Osmarender
layer, but with the copyright symbol removed, since the Osmarender
layer is still (even with Osmarender 5) considered a rough draft layer.
It provides a convenient way to see which user created a particular
way, which might be useful for editors. However, this information is of
no use for the end user of OpenStreetMap data, so it should be omitted
on final renderings of the data (like Mapnik and printed maps).
Consider Wikipedia - readers of Wikipedia who are not involved in
editing do not care which users contributed to an article, so this
information is only listed on the history page.

Andrew MacKinnon