[OSM-talk] Omaha World-Herald using OSM without attribution

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Wed Dec 17 23:47:35 UTC 2014


Awesome.  Figured it was a minor oversight, just wasn't quite in the right
frame to phrase it myself at that hour of the night and figured I would
forget.
On Dec 17, 2014 10:07 AM, "Toby Murray" <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tried contacting them yet? If not, I can. I've had good luck
> recently. I got geocaching.com to update their "About maps" page to
> reflect our new license and got the Kansas City Star to change the layout
> of their attribution so it wasn't hidden behind content any more. All it
> took was a quick note through their "contact us" forms.
>
> Toby
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Just noticed this and took a quick glance, didn't see any obvious signs
>> that
>> > there was any attribution on the map at
>> >
>> http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/dui-case-omaha-police-arrest-man-who-was-driving-on/article_e660b1c6-8534-11e4-b4b3-1fa3417935b4.html
>> ,
>> > which after scrolling over to more familiar territory, definitely
>> appears to
>> > be from OpenStreetMap.
>> >
>> > Could we get a second pair of eyes on this and maybe someone in the area
>> > contact the paper about getting us some credit on that?
>>
>> as you ca see by looking at the source frame
>> http://omahacrimereport.com/mockingbird-hills/hbug
>> the data is undoubtedly OSM data. has worldwide coverage with clear
>> distinctive features in mapping. and maps tiles are provided by
>> stamen.
>>
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