[OSM-talk] Another OSM use without attribution (unusual rendering)

sabas88 sabas88 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 16:31:18 UTC 2013


2013/7/22 Simon Hewison <simon at zymurgy.org>

> In today's Metro free tabloid newspaper in London, there's sponsored
> article
> (promoting Expedia), which extolls the virtues of the Shoreditch area of
> London. Fair enough, they want a map, so they've taken Openstreetmap data,
> tweaked the rendering to abbreviate street names (Old Street becomes Old
> St),
> tweaked the styling, but it looks very much like Mapnik, and an old copy
> of Openstreetmap data, based on the building outlines (I know, I mapped
> some
> of the buildings there).


> Oh, and they've not attributed Openstreetmap as the map data source.
>
> http://www.zymurgy.org/~simon/metro_osm_no_attribution.jpg
> vs
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.52694&lon=-0.08141&zoom=17&layers=M
>
>
The rendering is Mapbox Streets (no way to link, but some panning and
zooming here http://www.mapbox.com/tour/)


> Print copy is Metro newspaper, page 33, Monday 22 July 2013.
>
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