[OSM-talk] Attribution guideline update

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Wed Feb 19 16:36:13 UTC 2020


I believe there is actually a small issue with the definition here, as
there are two conflicting DIP definitions in use (one pixel on mobile
devices ~160 DPI vs one pixel for CSS 96 DPI), we need to state what we
are using.

Simon

Am 19.02.2020 um 17:22 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
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> sent from a phone
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>> Il giorno 19 feb 2020, alle ore 16:37, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> ha scritto:
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>> For our purposes, this is a better definition because it’s defined in terms of what a viewer can see rather than its implementation in hardware.
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> contrary to what I had written above I agree that the requirement/definition should be based on css-pixels because actual pixels are hard to know/control (if you design a website you cannot control/forsee the devices that people use to look at it, you base your layout on these theoretical css-pixels). 
> But I stick to the comment that 500px are far too many (=1000 actual retina pixels or 1500 px on a retina at 3). 200px seems perfectly ok for rendering a readable attribution string and still having some space left. There is no technical problem with lack of space for 200px wide maps.
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> Cheers Martin 
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