Kind of like the nutrition facts labels on food in the US...
On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, David Ellams wrote: > >> 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). > > For online maps we could even render maps with explicit sources. But for > printed maps; why not a long tail approach? > > This map has been aggregated from > the following sources: > 60% AND > 10% OS > 5% Ldp > ~ Others > > > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
