[OSM-talk] "Copyright" attribution on tiles at home Z17

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I've been unhappy with the "(c) someone" attribution that has  
been introduced on the tiles at home layer on zoom 17. I was hoping that  
it would go away but now that it seems to be here to stay, I have  
added an extra preprocessor to tiles at home which can mangle  
attribution lines (or more precisely, it mangles the "user=..."  
attributes in the OSM source files).

I have changed the Z17 style sheet to put the value of the "user"  
attribute below the street, without adding a "copyright" sign. The  
copyright sign is now added by a script called attribution.pl. These  
changes cancel each other out so that, for the normal user, nothing  
will change:

OSM server delivers road with "user=bart_simpson", attribution script  
changes this into "(c) bart_simpson", Osmarender renders "(c)  
bart_simpson".

However, you now have the option of putting your username in a  
mapping table called attribution.txt, followed by an equal sign and  
any other text you want shown instead. So for me, this will obviously  
be simply

woodpeck=

because I don't want to be listed. (The attribution.pl script changes  
this into a space character in order not to trigger the displaying of  
the built-in default "(c) Openstreetmap"). But you could also put  
something else - for example if you want to be listed but dislike the  
copyright symbol, write

bart_simpson=bart_simpson

or if you want the copyright symbol shown but your real name and not  
your screen name, put

bart_simpson=© Bart Simpson

Please don't abuse the feature by putting in Shakespeare sonnets.  
It's all in SVN so we know who you are ;-)

As before, anyone not listed in the attribution.txt file will be  
shown as "(c) screen name" or, if anonymous, "(c) OpenStreetMap".

Bye
Frederik

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