[OSM-talk] CLC2000

[Tom Hughes]

In message <2f3aa2770801171535n68937819s12e60d0ea2c4e745 at mail.gmail.com>
          "Robin Paulson" <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18/01/2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder) <blackadderajr at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Giving this level of attribution would be a problem. While we could include
> > the data provider name in the overall OSM attribution list we would not be
> > able to provide a specific link to them.
> 
> why is this an issue? i would assume the link has to appear whenever
> some of their data is displayed on screen? setting a tag to some
> value, that then triggers a link to display at bottom-right should not
> be too much of an issue. or is it some non-technical issue?

I take it you're volunteering to write the code to track changes
to tags and update a database that maps bounding boxes to attribution
strings and then allows a set of strings to be retrieved on the fly
to display over the slippy map as you move it?

What do you propose to do when zoomed out to show the whole world
and there are three hundred attribution strings to display by the
way? It might be quite hard to see the map with them all displayed...

Tom

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