Hi,
A couple of thoughts on this;
The OSM front page with the map merely has an attribution at the bottom
right of the screen in exactly the same way as Viking does after the OSM
Mapnik map has been loaded. You are not required to acknowlege the
attribution before you zoom or search on the site.
OSM itself has data derived from other sources, and it acknowledges this
by having a page on its wiki which you have to search for;
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors
My conclusion is, the suggestion of having something that does not
interrupt the flow i.e. Perhaps can we keep an in-the-flow dialog,
but storing the choice on disk in order to avoid answering the same
question again and again. by Guilhem is an excellent one, as is an
'about' page where you can click on the link if you wish to. As you can
maps from alternative sources, I don't know if you need to consider this
before making a decision? - could get a little complicated! Perhaps a
general statement somewhere to the affect that users should only use the
maps in accord to the individual owner / suppliers licence.
I use OSM data on my Garmin on my Android phone (Osmand for
navigation, and NeonGeo or C:Geo for geocaching), and no other source
reminds me every time that I load it that there is a licence which I
have to acknowledge, so it may be time to move on. My Garmin satnav
using Garmin mapping just loads works.
Licence / License - I think it depends where in the world you are - From
Wikipedia - The verb *license* or *grant license* means to give
permission. The noun *license* (American English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences)
or *licence* (British English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences,^[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-1 Indian English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English,^[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-2 Canadian English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English,^[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-3 Australian English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English,^[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-4 New Zealand English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_English,^[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-5 South African English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_English^[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License#cite_note-6 ) refers to that
permission as well as to the document recording that permission.
Personally I seem to have been spelling it both/either way for years
didn't realise there was a difference until you mentioned it.
Regards
Nick (Tallguy)
On 13/09/13 11:30, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
Hi,
2013/9/13 Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com
mailto:rw_nor...@hotmail.com
Well, I'm nearing completion for 1.5 - which will now be after
this coming weekend - to give anyone a chance to use the latest
source.
There is one last item I would appreciate feedback on (with this
patch attached) - this hasn't be applied to the code repository yet...
Originally I noticed I had spelt license 'wrong' - I had used
licence''. So I was just going to align the spelling, but then it
got me thinking:
Why do we introduce the About this License dialog, every time
one adds a map?
No other software as far as I know generates such a warning with
an interruption to one's work flow.
So instead I just shifted it to be an 'About' menu action from the
map layer.
Thus this license information is always available, which it wasn't
before.
I introduced this About this license dialog. Originally, I do so
because it seems really really important to ensure user is informed
about the license related to data he works with. I don't know how
other similar tools treat such topic. I just know that some other
tools working with license (like Eclipse when you install plugins)
insert a dialog where the user must accept or decline license, even
open-source related licenses.
It is good to have such info in a About menu, but this cannot be the
only solution as it is less informative: a not skilled user won't open
such dialog to discover subtilities of map's license, IMHO.
Perhaps can we keep an in-the-flow dialog, but storing the choice on
disk in order to avoid answering the same question again and again.
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