[OSM-talk] Burger King use of OSM without Attribution

[Clifford Snow]

Mikel,
I wonder if they just crop the image for the website, cutting off
attribution? They haven't replied to me, so I am going to look for
something like a legal contact at Burger King. Though we could issue a
copyright takedown to AWS.



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the report, we're looking into sorting out this attribution
> issue at Mapbox.
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>
> On Saturday, May 28, 2016 4:51 AM, Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Burgerking is using the static image api from mapbox:
>
>
> http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/dondeinc.ilo032fk/url-http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fdonde-img%2Fpin-bk.png%3Fc%3D3(-117.4382504,47.71573001)/-117.4382504,47.71573001,16/640x640.png
>
> So perhaps mapbox should be asked why attribution is not visible in the
> static image api.
>
> 2016-05-28 7:22 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>:
>
> I notices a new user added a fast food node [1] in Spokane, WA. The name
> was entered as BK. Assuming it was probably a Burger King, I did a search
> and found that it was actually a Burger King restaurant. What I noticed was
> their map [2] was identical to OSM.
>
> I sent a message via their contact me link on the page asking that they
> comply with our terms of use.
>
> Has anyone else noticed Burger King using OSM data before?
>
> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39617650
> [2]
> http://www.bk.com/restaurants/wa/spokane/1804-west-francis-ave-5816.html
>
> On a side note, I did send the user a message asking to verify the name.
> First time user with MAPS.ME <http://maps.me/>.
>
> Clifford
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