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

[Clifford Snow]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:09 AM, JB <jbosm at mailoo.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I read there (same page, paragraph 3a, seems you stopped
> reading too early) :
> *For a **browsable electronic map** (e.g. embedded in a web page or
> mobile phone application), the credit should appear in the corner of the
> map, as commonly seen with map APIs/libraries such as Google Maps. *
> So, no, it *should *be on the map.


I agree that continued reading would indicate that attribution should
appear on the main map. But the way its worded is troubling. "as commonly
seen..." I commonly see links as geocaching.com has provided. The wiki
wording is giving an out from giving credit on the main page. I'd much
rather see attribution on the map. Do you think rewording the wiki to make
it clear that it must be on the front page would provide us better
conformance?

The geocaching.com site is pretty straight forward. They clearly use our
base map with Mapquest tiles with an overlay of their own nodes. Others are
less clear. OSM base maps with multiple overlays from other sources. At
what point does the attribution get so cluttered that other forms to show
credit are more practical?

To me it is clear that geocache.com wants to credit OSM. Note only did they
credit OSM (thanks to Toby), but gave links on how to contribute.

There has been a call [1] for people to join the Working Groups. Maybe this
would be a good project for someone to undertake.

[1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-December/071586.html

Clifford

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