Am Fr., 17. Apr. 2020 um 20:50 Uhr schrieb Richard Fairhurst < rich...@systemed.net>:
> "contributors" because I wanted to communicate the nature of the project: > this is an open map with (plural) contributors. Contrast with the > attribution for other map data suppliers which just have a corporate brand: > "TomTom", "Navteq" (as it was), "Ordnance Survey". By saying "OpenStreetMap > contributors", we communicate that the map has many contributors - and, > implicitly, you could be one too. So it serves as a recruiting sergeant for > OSM, while conveying the democratic, grassroots nature of the project. To > my > mind the main driver for attribution has always been to get more > contributors and make the map better. > > I'm past caring what it says now, but thought the original rationale might > be helpful. it is helpful, while on the other hand, our current copyright page points to the "contributors" page, which is a long list of public data providers, generally institutional: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors Maybe we should extend this list by the usernames of everybody who has made at least 1 contribution? Is it really "impossible to adequately acknowledge the many individuals who survey their neighbourhoods with GPS and notepad, or trace over licensed satellite imagery," ? Cheers Martin
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