On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 08:41, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > to consolidate all attribution guidance in to one document
Some thoughts: > www.openstreetmap.org/copyright openstreetmap.org/copyright (without "www") works, and should be preferred (several occurrences). > Our requested attribution is "© OpenStreetMap contributors". Add "or the equivalent in the local language". Change "requested" to "preferred", since other forms are allowable. > You should qualify the credit to explain what OSM content you are > using. For example, if you have rendered OSM data to your own > design, you may wish to use "Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors". Confusion between "should" and "may". > If OpenStreetMap data accounts for a minority (less than > 50%) part of the visible map rendering... The concerns others have raised could be addressed by changing this to "If less than 50% of the data used for the visible map rendering is from OpenStreetMap..." > Except for small images "small" is subjective; give a definition. >Applications that incorporate a geocoder must credit OpenStreetMap Change to "Applications that incorporate a geocoder that uses OpenStreetMap data must credit OpenStreetMap" > or in a footnote/endnote if that is where other credits appear and/or in the > "acknowledgements" section Change to "or in a footnote/endnote and/or in the 'acknowledgements' section, whichever is where other credits appear" > Tv, film or video Typo; should be "TV, film or video" -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
