On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Craig Wallace <craig...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 03/08/2012 03:36, Toby Murray wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Norris <rw_nor...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I think it's nice that the Royal Mail have chosen to use OSM for the >>> backdrop to their site for Great Britain Golden Postbox listings to >>> celebrate Team GB successes in the current Olympics: >>> >>> http://www.goldpostboxes.com/ >>> >>> 1. I think a certain Attribution clause is missing[1] >>> 2. I think they are merely pointing to the OSM main tileserver >>> (tile.openstreetmap.org) - this doesn't seem in keeping with the OSM Tile >>> Usage Policy[2] >>> >>> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright >>> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy >> >> >> First reaction: Make sure everything near those markers is mapped >> well! (check for license bot damage?) > > > And check whether those postboxes are actually mapped in OSM. > > Though I'm not sure how accurate that Gold Post Boxes map is. > The Bradley Wiggins postbox is listed as "Markey Street, Chorley", but the > map seems to be pointing to Adlington, a few miles away. And the one for > Westminster Abbey is marked at Trafalgar Square.
Attribution has been remedied, complete with a twitter apology. https://twitter.com/royalmailnews/status/231381561604440064 Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
