On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:20 +1000, "John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've only seen it suggested in the past about how crediting every > single contributor would be pages long, your suggestion is a good > idea, however I'm left wondering if this would make things open to > abuse, how many times would something be mass tagged attribution=Buy > viagra now online! before that was no longer shown to prevent > vandalism... I can't take credit for the suggestion, as I think this was Richard F's idea (I knew I'd seen it somewhere: is this fair attribution? <grin>). Maybe, for an online map (such as osm.org), a more prominent link to OSM's contributors page would be sufficient (again, only maybe - still not certain a national mapping agency would think so). I think I had a printed map in my mind. It would be impractical to list all contributors, but certainly possible to list the most significant for the area/scale (I mention scale, as I don't think it reasonable to need to attribute, say, Ordnance Survey if you are rendering only a World Map with no significant detail from OS). David PS Apologies for the crappy subject line - it was an accident. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
