[trying this again] Good morning,
I've never done a use-without-attribution case before, would like to get some suggestions before I dive in. I'm pretty sure this is a "substantial" violation. It seems that US News & World Report is using OSM data/maps without attribution in their Health website; my opthalmologist's page https://health.usnews.com/doctors/jared-younger-768369 includes a map that I instantly recognized as OSM. I make it a point to enhance the maps every time I have an appointment somewhere, and I had done substantial cleanup of the maps in the northeast corner of Brookhurst & Ellis in Fountain Valley. The *current* map doesn't look much like the one in the US News page: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62921271#map=18/33.69463/-117.95174 because of my subsequent changes, but - among other things - the spurious and incorrect segment of "Ellis Street" just below the main Ellis Street was leftover Tiger data that I'd fixed as well on changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62921271 Digging in, it seems that US News runs their own tile server (example tile): https://maptile.usnews.com/tile0/12/707/1640.png so this is clearly them and not (say) Leaflet. Their terms & conditions page https://www.usnews.com/info/features/terms has a helpful email address copyrightag...@usnews.com that invites contacts about copyright issues. So, I think I should be following the procedure here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution with a polite note to them. Am I on the right track? Steve --- Steve Friedl // Software & Network Security Consultant // 714-345-4571 st...@unixwiz.net // Southern California USA // I speak for me only _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
