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

Mike mike.cuttlers at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 12:41:10 UTC 2013


On 26.04.13. 10:19, Kai Krueger wrote:

>> Current OSM logo lacks necessary properties of good brand visual
>> identification, and thus it is not used much. The most obvious problem
>> is it is not usable - you cannot use it as small mark in corner of the
>> map as when resized to needed small resolution image it becomes
>> unreadable.
>
> Is that really the case? At least for the typical web map I am not sure I'd
> agree that the current logo is a problem. At the same size as the Google or
> Bing logo is on their maps (which seems to be perfectly acceptable to a wide
> majority of users), the standard OSM logo seems just fine. Even the extended
> text based log ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osm_linkage.png )
> seems fine at the typical size of webmap attribution logos.
>
> Obviously, it is not workable in all cases. E.g. on a small mobile screen it
> would use up to much screen real estate, but that is probably true for any
> significant graphical logo. There the attribution could e.g. be on a
> separate about screen, or in textual form, which is appropriate for the
> medium. But the majority of cases would imho be fine with the current
> logo(s).
>
> Therefore my preference would be to recommend people to use the
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osm_linkage.png logo were possible
> and otherwise fall back to the (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL

I agree with you in all counts except that suggested logo is suitable. 
It is too big, it has to many details and too many colors.




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