Move license attribution to standard OpenLayers control about openstreetmap-website HOT 9 CLOSED

What do you mean by "move license attribution" exactly? We don't currently display a license attribution because I don't see any point cluttering up the map with more overlays when the map is on the OpenStreetMap web site and we already have a link to license information beside it.

If you're talking about moving the copyright link from the side bar to overlay it on the map then I would be opposed to that as that link is more than just attribution, it's a general link to information about our licensing and copyright policy. If we want to overlay attribution on the map then it should be in addition to the current link in the sidebar

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There are two main problems I see with the current license-info presentationl.

First, it's buried - the left-links are basically 'something of everything' that should eventually be rid and/or restructured.

Second, it's really odd that other sites need text to the effect of '© OpenStreetMap Contributors' whereas the home page hides this, and any mention of ODbL or whatnot. It would be much more obvious to people if crediting OSM tiles is just a matter of doing the same credit as OSM itself has.

The idea of this being a general link to copyright & licensing; I don't really see how the two are exclusive - the attribution would link to the same page.

I'd like to split Frederick's nitpicky comments about permalinks and how he likes the old thing better into a separate discussion; we should be able to find a permalink design that works for (nearly) everyone.

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I'm happy to move it if that's the general consensus, it just seems to me to be making it too much about the rendered map rather than the project as a whole.

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I feel like this could make things clearer - we would be able to add a similar-looking attribution string to other forms of data elsewhere on the site, like node-viewing pages, and the 'Export' dialog, so that there's more context, and we can also make it clear what is tile-copyright and what is data-odbl.

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Just my personal opinion, but I would support having an attribution on the slippy map. With the current "copyright link", which I would keep, the attribution on the slippy map is (presumably) redundant and the extra attribution does clutter the map somewhat.

But precisely because the focus of osm.org isn't to provide nice maps but to encourage others to use the data, I think having the attribution on the slippy map is important. It provides a prominent example of how to correctly attribute OpenStreetMap data on a slippy map and makes therefore makes it much easier for others to copy this example and get the attribution correct on their use of osm data.

So the trade-off of cluttering the map vs the added help to others is imho worth it.

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Tom Hughes [email protected]:

I'm happy to move it if that's the general consensus, it just seems to me
to be making it too much about the rendered map rather than the project as
a whole.

Adding our recommended attribution to our own map seems good from a dogfood
point of view. It also gives the right attribution to a newbie who might
copy / paste the OSM page as their first experiment with OSM / OL, etc.

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Adding our recommended attribution to our own map seems good from a dogfood
point of view. It also gives the right attribution to a newbie who might
copy / paste the OSM page as their first experiment with OSM / OL, etc.

+1 - we should show how it's done right there on the frontpage of osm.org

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People, if you're going to comment by replying to mails on the mailing list then please say who you are in the mail as it will show up here as coming from openstreetmap-website which is the account used to integrate with the mailing list...

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We're not using OpenLayers anymore, so this is kind of redundant.

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