[OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

Kathleen Danielson kathleen.danielson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 17:41:41 UTC 2013


Hi Martin,

Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see
us using instead?


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 2013/12/2 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>
>
>> For sure, contour lines are not part of OSM but it makes nice images.
>> It's all about marketing ;-)
>>
>
>
> While I agree that the image is visually appealing, I still dispute that
> it is suitable for representing OSM on our main "about" page. We do have
> lots of lots of OSM-related images and different maps based on OSM to
> choose 4 images from (e.g. the images of the week), we really shouldn't use
> proprietary imagery from Mapquest or unrelated srtm data and NASA imagery
> for this scope.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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