Greg Troxel-2 wrote > According to the policy, QGIS would probably need permission to offer > tiles from OSM servers.
That is what Paolo has been discussing with OSM. Greg Troxel-2 wrote > I'm unclear if this discussion is only about using OSM as a base layer > within QGIS, or also extends to publishing created maps on the web such > that web users would load tiles. Generally, OSM tileservers are > intended to support OSM itself, and for low-usage applications. So it > might be that for publishing it would be good to ask people to check > that they've read the tile usage policy. It would be a fully-featured layer within QGIS, which users could publish. Greg Troxel-2 wrote > Socially, if you have a facility to add OSM, then by default, adequate > attribution should be added, so that someone who does not understand how > to set up attribution or does not understand that they must will end up > doing thte right thing. Yes, we would add the approved attribution by default. Tom ----- Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Adding-default-OSM-backround-maps-tp5313358p5313657.html Sent from the QGIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
