[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

[Steve Hill]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andy Allan wrote:

> Aargh. This is so close to being extremely useful. But if that's going
> to be a requirement for my cycle map to display that, and all the
> sites that use the main slippy map, or those embedding the cycle map
> tiles, and the garmin.img files need to display that, and trekbuddy
> needs to display that, then there'll be a strong demand for a weekly
> planet-no-NZ.osm.bz2, which is not exactly what we want to happen!

All the affected data can be added to an "attribution" relation.  Sites 
which use the OSM data set but don't show the attributions can then just 
exclude everything within attribution relations.

Sites including the official slippymap tiles are more problematic.  Tweaks 
to OpenLayers could be made to make the right attribution stuff appear but 
there is obviously no way to enforce the version of OpenLayers people use 
(and that doesn't even consider the people who don't use OpenLayers).

Maybe we should just forget about trying to display what specific 
attributions apply to the displayed data set and simply have an 
"attributions" page on the OSM web site which lists attributions for the 
whole map (which may only affect a small area - if someone wants to know 
exactly which bits it affects then they will need to look at the data 
itself for the aforementioned "attribution" relations).

Anyway, enough rambling from me :)  I think their request is fair enough - 
they are effectively using a similar licence to OSM: "here, have some data 
but you have to say where you got it".

  - Steve
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