[OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

[Mikel Maron]

> And I didn't understand anybody in this discussion as that: Not the> visual identifier as it is a poor idea, but the REPLACEMENT of the text
> by this visual identifier is.
>...
> Reducing that to a visual project is a common error, but it's not correct.

I've seen a few responses that because OSM is about data, then attribution on maps should be in text.
One does not follow another. ""© OpenStreetMap contributors " doesn't do anything to explain that notion.

It's a separate issue from a visual identifier for the use of OSM data on a slippy map. Even if OpenStreetMap
were well known, the simple fact is that no one reads the copyright text at the bottom of any map, 
it's noise and clutter that we filter out (unless we're map geeks).

http://osmlab.github.io/attribution-mark/copyright/ (which btw now has a bit of OSM.org chrome on it, nice)
This page does a good job at communicating the nature of OSM. Most folks aren't going to come onto the talk@ list,
and be told the difference in 3 different replies. Our web presence just isn't doing a good job at communication.

-Mikel


* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org 
>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:12 AM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)
> 
>
>Hi Robert.
>
>Am 26.04.2013 09:44, schrieb Robert Banick:
>> As a cartographic project, isn't the whole point of OSM visual? It
>> seems a big contradictory to assert that a visual identifier for a
>> mapping project is a poor idea.
>But OSM is not (only) a cartoGRAPHIC project, it's a geoDATA project.
>One - and by far not the only - use case for that geodata is the
>graphics - be it 2D, 3D or even Virtual Reality.
>
>And I didn't understand anybody in this discussion as that: Not the
>visual identifier as it is a poor idea, but the REPLACEMENT of the text
>by this visual identifier is.
>
>If the whole point of OSM would be visual, we would paint
>collaboratively on a big canvas. Instead we put data in a database,
>state where streets are intersecting and where they cross without being
>connected using a bridge or a tunnel.
>
>That's why routing, geocoding and much more is possible with OSM.
>
>Reducing that to a visual project is a common error, but it's not correct.
>
>regards
>Peter
>
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