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

[John Smith]

On 10 August 2010 23:05, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> This also gives the advice, consistent with our current licence and with
> ODbL, that "where data from a national mapping agency or other major source
> has been included in OpenStreetMap, it may be reasonable to credit them by
> directly reproducing their credit or by linking to it on this page".

I should have spelt out my thoughts a little more clearly, I was
suggesting a lookup table that could be used for the attribution, not
just by OSM(F), but by others as well, that could be linked to, eg a
wiki page, or shown as overlaid text on map tiles...

The reason for this would be to still attribute major contributors
properly, without risking the database being corrupted by spammers.