[OSM-talk] Osmarender 5

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

>      I hereby specify that you must attribute my work in the following
>      manner: "Do not embed my user name in maps produced; either omit it, or
>      list in in a textual appendix to the map."
> 
>    You chose to make your user name public.  Do you want to rescind that
>    now?  Those who have not made their user name public will not have their
>    names on the map.

I have no problem whatsover to have my name made public as a
contributor. I am just unhappy about the way you have chosen to
display my name because it is not my style; you write in another post
that your aim is to put people's names "in the light" as much as
possible, while my personal style would rather be low-key,
unobtrusive. 

>    (FWIW I think this public setting should be reversible.  Obviously it
>    cannot be rescinded for names that are already in a planet file somewhere,
>    but it would mean that all future edits were no longer public which must
>    have some value.)

Even if you would let me reverse the "public" setting I would not do
that because I think it has a very high value for the mapping
community; anyone who *wants* to find out who mapped a certain way
should be able to do so, to contact him in case of questions etc.; I
believe this is important, and faced with the dilemma of either not
being identifiable at all or having my name shouted out to anyone no
matter whether or not they're interested, I'd probably still choose
the second option.

If you could add a simple text file to Osmarender with a list of user
names to suppress when creating maps, and put that in SVN, and I could
just add my name to that, I'd be happy - I could still be found by
anyone who looks for me but my name wouldn't be shouted in the face of
the general public as if I were bragging about the little footway I
recently placed in someone else's neighbourhood.

(Unnecessary for me, but if you wanted to you could actually even
create a file with mapping table, so everybody could map his user name
to whatever he wants as attribution, or the empty string if he doesn't
want his name on the map. That could get you quite close to the letter
of the license.)

Bye
Frederik

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