On 02.07.2013 17:56, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Image > This tag has over 12,000 uses, and I feel it is time to define the > expectations for the tag clearly.
Unfortunately, some crucial expectations that I have for linked images are still missing: * I feel that it should be stated that *only* images under a free license should be linked, i.e. images that offer the same freedoms as OpenStreetMap data. * As a practical requirement for use cases such as embedding, images need to either be available without attribution requirements - i.e. as CC0, PD or similar - or the attribution must be machine-readable. > The big change is a definition that the image tag point to an index page > which defines the license status, > (rather than depending on the EXIF data). While this is an attempt to address the license problem, it is only loosely related. Image description pages may not actually be machine-readable. On the other had, some sites may indeed offer machine-readable data, but through different means (an API, normalized EXIF data, or simply by applying the same license to all images hosted on the site). So this is a good suggestion for Wikimedia Commons, but not necessarily for other sites. I doubt there even is a solution that works for every image source equally. Tobias _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
