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

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Tue May 31 20:25:55 UTC 2016


OK - Sent message to Burger King's legal department. Let's see what happens.



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

> 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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