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

[David Fawcett]

Kind of like the nutrition facts labels on food in the US...



On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:

> 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:
> 60% AND
> 10% OS
> 5%  Ldp
> ~   Others
> 
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
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