16.06.2010 17:47, Frank Sautter wrote: > WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data > http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin
That's great! It's a useful way to present OSM and it demonstrates growing popularity. If we want to reach a larger audience, we need to be present on search engines and the like - and as Google is unlikely to replace Google Maps with OSM anytime soon, so it's the smaller, more specialized services that might adopt OSM as their map link target first. It's somewhat discouraging, though, that *every time* anyone uses OSM, we instantly react with this: > Is the license attribution they are using OK? Imo, it is. They name OSM as a data source directly below the image and let you access osm.org when you click on the image. They also give more detailled attribution (with the license abbreviation and another link to osm.org) on the "Source information" page. That's where all the other data sources are listed, too - considering the large number of sources, it's clearly resonable to have a separate page for sources. Technically, they don't provide the license URL directly (only indirectly through the link to OSM), but I don't consider that a relevant problem. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
