[OSM-talk] Osmarender 5

[80n]

On 9/2/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> 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    cannot be rescinded for names that are already in a planet file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.)


This would be quite feasible and probably worth doing.  Ideally when a user
registers they should be asked "How would you like your work attributed?"
and perhaps give them a list of options:  Not at all, My user name, My real
name, OpenStreetMap, this other text.

It would probably be a while before something like that got implemented and
fed through to the API, so perhaps I should hack something together in an
XML file that can be easily read by Osmarender.

Something like this maybe:

<attribution>
  <user id='woodpeck'></user>  <!-- Not at all -->
  <user id='80n'>Etienne</user>
  <user id='xyz'>OpenStreetMap</user>
</attribution>

80n


Bye
> Frederik
>
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