[OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

[Alexandre Oliveira]

I would like to ask a question related to #1.

Let's make a thought exercise. OSM provides geographical data, right? By
definition, a map is a visualization of geographical and other types of
data. In this case, a tile server is nothing more than the visual
representation of the geographical data. Don't you agree that without the
data OSM provides there would be no map (of course you can use other
sources like Google or Bing), since there would be no data to be visualized
and represented?

So why is attribution not necessary? The most important part of the map is
its data, without it there is no map. So I can't understand why you're so
hostile towards proper attribution which is REQUIRED by the ODbL.

I would also like to ask, given the circumstances, would it be fair if I
use Mapillary images (now that the service is in the hands of Facebook) and
hide attribution credits under a button your average user won't ever see?
They might think that data comes from Street View by Google.


And finally, I'd like to remind everyone that the LeafletJS library, used
by many, comes with attribution enabled by default, if there is no
attribution it was removed intentionally and in bad faith.
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