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

[Stefan de Konink]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, David Ellams 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).

For online maps we could even render maps with explicit sources. But for 
printed maps; why not a long tail approach?

This map has been aggregated from
the following sources:
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10% OS
5%  Ldp
~   Others



Stefan