[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43
David Ellams
osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm
Tue Aug 10 13:52:19 BST 2010
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:20 +1000, "John Smith"
<deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've only seen it suggested in the past about how crediting every
> single contributor would be pages long, your suggestion is a good
> idea, however I'm left wondering if this would make things open to
> abuse, how many times would something be mass tagged attribution=Buy
> viagra now online! before that was no longer shown to prevent
> vandalism...
I can't take credit for the suggestion, as I think this was Richard F's
idea (I knew I'd seen it somewhere: is this fair attribution? <grin>).
Maybe, for an online map (such as osm.org), a more prominent link to
OSM's contributors page would be sufficient (again, only maybe - still
not certain a national mapping agency would think so). I think I had a
printed map in my mind. It would be impractical to list all
contributors, but certainly possible to list the most significant for
the area/scale (I mention scale, as I don't think it reasonable to need
to attribute, say, Ordnance Survey if you are rendering only a World Map
with no significant detail from OS).
David
PS Apologies for the crappy subject line - it was an accident.
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