Am 28.09.2012 18:16, schrieb Mike: > Let's say, someone prepares data by recording it in the field, and > then adds another value to data by sorting it out, fixing it and > adding more information and details. And then he wants to include that > data to OpenStreetMap. > > What is mean of giving proper author attribution? All I can see is > that OpenStreetMap is presented in copyright notes, not actual > authors. The only way I found out to see author attribution is to > download openstreet data and then search there. > > I understand that making attribution to all authors at once is problem > due to large number of involved authors, but there should be some way > to give proper attribution to real persons who contribute to > OpenStreetMap.
Well forgetting about the minor issue that we don't have access to the real names, I don't see any reason why you couldn't build a service that given a bounding box returns a list of contributors in that area. The easy way would be to take a full history planet dump and produce a static DB of contributors from than (see Pascal Neis hdyc service) it would be a bit more tricky to keep it up date automatically but completely doable if you want to undertake the effort, more power to you. Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
