[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

[John Smith]

On 10 August 2010 22:52, David Ellams <osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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).

No idea about printed maps, but several sites recently only linked to
an attribute page on their site, rather than displaying it on top of
the map, so maybe having a small lookup table of major contributors
that can be linked to would be suitable?