So, kurze Rueckmeldung: Ich habe www.Geocaching.com bzw. Groundspeak eine Email geschrieben, ein wenig Honig um den Bart geschmiert und auf die fehlende Attribution hingewiesen (Text im Anhang.)
Gestern kam knappe die Antwort, das sie sich fuer den Hinweis bedanken und die Seite geaendert haben. Unter www.geocaching.com/map gibt es jetzt eine ordentliche Attribution. Fall geloest. Im Wiki habe ich die Kontaktaufnahme dokumentiert und ebenfalls die positive Loesung angegeben. Text der Mail war: Hello Geocaching.com Team, I'm writing you as a (random) representative of the OpenStreetMap community to thank you for your bold step to switch the main map of Geocaching.com to an OpenStreetMap-based system. We are very happy to see more and more big players on the internet giving us a chance to prove our crowd-sourced effort to be a real alternative to commercial map data providers. We are sure that this will be of mutual benefit to both Geocaching.com and OpenStreetMap. You will gain a map that offers more detail in many countries of the world than the commercial ones. Even in places like the US or Canada, we often offer detail like hiking trails and footpaths that is not available elsewhere. We, on the other hand, may gain a lot of new contributors out of the already GPS-obsessed Geocaching community. Which of course will lead to an even better map. Although OpenStreetMap will not charge you anything for those maps and you are free to implement a lot of new features using our data if you like, there is one small requirement Geocaching.com has to fulfill to legally use the maps. This little thing is attribution. We request that your credit reads at least "Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA" on the actual map. Where possible, 'OpenStreetMap' should be hyperlinked to http://www.openstreetmap.org/, and CC-BY-SA to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ . You already do proper attribute all the other OSM-based layers of your map, so I believe this is just a small error during your transition process. You should be able to receive the proper attribution directly through the API of you tile-provider MapQuest. Both this MapQuest example: http://open.mapquestapi.com/sdk/js/v6.1.0/basic-map.html and this Leaflet example: http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ show you how this can be achieved. I'm sure you will have that fixed in no time. It has been recorded in our Wiki that you have been contacted now, so hopefully you should not receive multiple of those mails. But as it goes with crowd sourced efforts, we can't guarantee for all of our members. We are quite proud of our work and therefore somewhat passionate about the attribution. Best regards, ############# Geocacher and OpenStreetMap contributor _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
