Allroads
(Allroads)
May 23, 2022, 12:17pm
1
A task for the forum website:
A sentence on the forumpage to attribute OSM static map images.
For OSM only map images:
Answer legal OSMF.
As per the Attribution Guidelines , “if multiple static images appear on the same document, one instance of attribution is sufficient.” Thus, for a forum like this one devoted to OSM, a website footer message of “map images are from OpenStreetMap unless otherwise noted” is sufficient, without need to label the images individually.
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This is a screenshot from the Licence/Attribution Guidelines page.
For not OSM map images:
individual,…
nukeador
(Rubén Martín)
May 23, 2022, 12:58pm
2
@Firefishy is this something we need to include on the forums about page or FAQs? We already have a link to the terms of service, which are the OSM ones
https://community.openstreetmap.org/tos
Allroads
(Allroads)
May 23, 2022, 1:19pm
3
legal OSMF write:
footer
that is not a about or FAQs page.
I think it must be visible when you see osm map image.
nukeador
(Rubén Martín)
May 23, 2022, 1:21pm
4
Allroads:
footer
Note that discourse forums have infinite scrolling and footer doesn’t includes text or links because of this (won’t be seen)