On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reputed manufacturer of RF equipment Rohde & Schwarz > > has applied OSM maps in firmware in their portable > > R&S DDF007 Direction Finder for tracking down > > (illegal) sources of interference. > > > > Their brochure states that OSM currently is *license-free,* > > which apparently is a commercial translation of free-license. > > The brochure clearly mentions OSM and its possibilities and > > the OSM url. > > > > Geo licenses seem really difficult to understand ;<)) > > > > As far as my information goes the device will cost you > > more than 50.000 USD. > > > > I do not have any information about attribution, > > but the brochure screen image shows none. > > > > > http://www2.rohde-schwarz.com/en/products/radiomonitoring/direction_finder/DDF007-|-Brochures_and_Data_Sheets-|-19-|-8692.html > > > I wouldn't expect direct on screen attribution on a mobile device. They have enough happening on that screen as is. At least the brochure certainly leaves no doubt that this is an OSM based map although they don't quite include the "blessed" text. However their documentation needs some work. I just download their OSMWizard installer. It has an OpenSource_Acknowledgement.pdf file in it which is great. This file contains the software licenses for 13 different pieces of open source software that they use. QT (typoed as OT in one table), Boost, GnuPlot, Postgres, OpenSSL, etc. But no mention of OpenStreetMap :( The other problem is that this OSMWizard software is a tile scraper. It doesn't send a user agent string either so it is violating several terms of our tile usage policy. You can put in a custom tile server but it defaults to the osm.org mapnik layer. Although, given the specialized nature of this product I imagine it won't really cause any major problems compared to the other scrapers that are out there. Toby
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