[OSM-talk] About attribution to authors

[Christian Quest]

2012/9/29 Mike <mike.cuttlers at gmail.com>:
> Each time I fix something and then OpenStreetMap shows me as an author makes
> me feel bad. Someone else did hard work and I get all glory just because of
> minor fix, although even that is visible only to map editors, not to the
> wide public.
>

Replace "author" by "last modifier", and it will be closer to reality.

I don't consider myself as an author when I contribute to OSM. I'm
adding data in a database, and these data are factual ones, not things
I created with my imagination.
All together we're pushing the project forward like ants building a
huge ant-hill.

Now that we are in the ODbL logic, all the history of object is there
to allow tracing, not to give attribution to individuals.


> This all is contrary to attribution OpenStreetMap demands for itself on
> every occasion.

It is an attribution to the ant-hill as a group.


-- 
Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France - http://openstreetmap.fr/u/cquest