Hi, On Firefox OS I'm using a stumbler application for the MLS : https://github.com/clochix/FxStumbler It can display some points on the map and it's using OSM services.
You can check the code for your own application. On a corner it's writen (c) openstreetmap . PL 2014-08-04 18:04 GMT+02:00 Adrian Custer <[email protected]>: > On 8/4/14 12:09 PM, Felix Baumann wrote: > >> Hi Adrian, >> >> *0) *It actually does contain copyright notices: Menu -> About >> there's just not enough space in the map page >> and as far as I know every Android app shows copyright notices on the >> about page >> >> and in any case: as you already stated, MozStumbler needs to contain >> copyright notices. >> > > Ah, hmm, that's probably *allowed* but frowned upon: > > **************************************************************** > http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright > **************************************************************** > .... > > How to credit OpenStreetMap > > We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”. > > You must also make it clear that the data is available under the Open > Database License, and if using our map tiles, that the cartography is > licensed as CC BY-SA. You may do this by linking to this copyright page. > Alternatively, and as a requirement if you are distributing OSM in a data > form, you can name and link directly to the license(s). In media where > links are not possible (e.g. printed works), we suggest you direct your > readers to openstreetmap.org (perhaps by expanding 'OpenStreetMap' to > this full address), to opendatacommons.org, and if relevant, to > creativecommons.org. > > For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner of > the map. > > .... > **************************************************************** > > > Note that last paragraph and see the page for an example; it is a *should* > so not strictly, legally required but... Also the link needs to go to the > page linked above *NOT* to www.openstreetmap.org and so probably needs to > be called (visible text) "OpenStreetMap" not www.open..... > > > > > > > >> *1) *Of course they can be reused. >> > > Okay. So, unless I hear otherwise, I will presume that the data are (C) > OSM and the tiles are provided without any additional (c). Cool. Now to > figure out how to get some tiles... > > NO. THIS IS WRONG. CORRECTED BELOW. > > > You can find the URL in the following file: MapActivity.java >> <https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/blob/master/src/ >> org/mozilla/mozstumbler/client/mapview/MapActivity.java> >> >> private static final String COVERAGE_REDIRECT_URL = >> "https://location.services.mozilla.com/map.json";; >> it's just a redirect though since the tile URL might change in the future. >> ->you need to parse the JSON file to get the tiles url >> >> current content of the json file: >> {"tiles_url": "https://d17pt8qph6ncyq.cloudfront.net/tiles/"} >> > > thanks, that is useful. > > Oops, no, this is the low accuracy point cloud data. Interesting, but not > what I want; I'd forgotten about that layer. > > https://d17pt8qph6ncyq.cloudfront.net/tiles/0/0/0.png > https://d17pt8qph6ncyq.cloudfront.net/tiles/13/2817/4944.png > > The former is the whole world, the latter city center, Montevideo, Uruguay. > > > > >> I don't think this is documented anywhere though >> @hannosch are you planning to add a page to the API documentation about >> this or is it listed elsewhere? >> >> for the OSM map MozStumbler uses Mapbox as a provider (see about page) >> > > > **************************************************************** > Proxying or redistributing maps served from Mapbox is prohibited. Maps may > be cached on consumer devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets) for offline > use, however, each device must populate its cache using direct requests to > Mapbox and content from a cache may only be consumed by a single end-user. > Further redistribution from a cache is prohibited. Scraping or any mass > download by a single user for purposes other than offline caching is > prohibited. > **************************************************************** > > SO UNFORTUNATELY YOUR ANSWER TO 1 DOES NOT SEEM TO BE CORRECT. WE CAN NOT > REUSE THE TILES FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A USER CACHE. Oh well, I'll have to > wait until I can build the downloading into the app to use any of these > tiles. > > > > > >> *2) *Yes, MozStumbler just uses an OSMDroid.jar file to render the map. >> But I'm not too familiar with the implementation, so i cannot help you >> there. >> https://code.google.com/p/osmdroid/ >> https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid >> >> or are you talking about Mapbox when you say service? -> take a look at >> 1) then >> > > yep, thanks. > > > As far as I know you can use Mapbox for free (you need to create an >> account) but I'm not familiar with the licenses. >> https://www.mapbox.com/ >> https://www.mapbox.com/developers/ >> > > Okay, perhaps to be used at some future point. For now, I personally need > offline resources. > > How does MozStumbler define its style for the street background layer? > > It might be useful for stumbling apps to share a common map style for some > continuity across platforms. It may be that this does not work design wise > but it would be nice to have the style definition anyhow in case it did. > > > >> >> If you need infos about the API take a look at the following page: >> https://mozilla-ichnaea.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >> >> >> In general you spend to much time on interpretating on facts that were >> wrong :). >> > > I am not sure which of my facts were *wrong*; I was asking several > questions about issues which were not yet facts for me. As background to > readers who don't know much about maps, or do not understand the pedantic > details of copyright law, or do not understand my proximate or ulterior > motives, I tried to give context to my questions. > > Beyond that, as I scientist, I spend my entire life being wrong, at > varying, reasonably precisely defined levels of wrongness. > > cheers, > ~adrian > > > P.S. the word 'too', as in 'too much' has an extra 'o' in english, in case > that was not simply a typo. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation > _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
