I wonder if we have a strategy how to deal with companies who use our data but don't attribute in the right way or don't adhere to the license terms.
In the past we had Apple (still unsolved, at least since April 2012) and Microsoft (using military areas from OSM to blur their imagery), now there is the biggest German map editor (MairDumont) who is not mentioning the license of the used data, nor linking to OSM or spelling out the name (OpenStreetMap). See here: http://www.kompass.de/online-karte.html By rough analysis it seems as if they are using April 2012 data (cc-by-sa) outside German speaking countries, while they use a different (proprietary) source in Germany, Austria and maybe other countries. Their Attribution is unclear in several ways: 1. They don't mention the license (cc-by-sa or odbl), if you click on the license link you get to a page on their website that encourages you to enquire about the costs for a print license, but no mention of any openness. 2. The "terms of use"-link goes to google (from whom they use the API). -> IMHO misleading As far as I have found until now on their map and website there is no link or mention of OSM other than the attribution (c) 2013 Falk, OSM & Contributors, (c) 2013 KOMPASS Karten GmbH (DTK600 10). --- OK, I missed the "i"-link, there is additional attribution, even more confusing: Diese Anwendung baut auf dem Interaktiven Karten-Framework ecMAPS *) auf. Details dazu unter http://hubermedia.de Kontaktieren Sie uns, falls Sie Fragen oder Anregungen haben: supp...@hubermedia.de *Technologie-Partner ...* © 2013 ecMAPS® ONLINE - hubermedia.de/ecmaps-online © 2013 ecMAPS® MOBIL - hubermedia.de/ecmaps-mobil © 2013 eT4® META - hubermedia.de/et4-meta © 2013 eT4® Redaktionssystem - hubermedia.de/et4 © 2013 Google © 2013 CloudMade - Map data CCBYSA 2009 ___ IMHO this is misleading, as you can't tell whether the data comes from Google or Cloudmade or any other of the mentioned companies (and if it was cloudmade, still 2009 would not be the correct date, and Cloudmade isn't OSM-> still missing attribution). I followed the link to hubermedia and clicked on ecmaps-online, also there is no link to OSM nor the name spelled out. What are the concatenation (?) requirements for attribution? Is it OK to generally quote a lot of different map data providers without specifying which part of the map is from whom, and if yes, how could one exercise his right to share if you don't know to which part it applies? And: are we generally willing to try to enforce the license? What are the measures foreseen if someone refuses to do so? cheers, Martin
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