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Looks great! Your new maps need to have an on-map credit to OpenStreetMap, as that's where the map data comes from, and OSM's licence requires attribution. osm

Looks great! Your new maps need to have an on-map credit to OpenStreetMap, as that's where the map data comes from, and OSM's licence requires attribution. osm.org/copyright explains how.

aroman 13y ago
It does. Click the "i" button: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA
- Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
  That's not on-map, that's hidden behind a click. osm.org/copyright makes it very clear that the attribution needs to be on-map. You don't see Google permitting people to hide their brand away like that!
  - xrjn 13y ago
    You should rant about runkeeper too, as they do the same thing by hiding the OSM contributor information.
  - incanus77 13y ago
    Apple does this too in all of their uses of OSM in their maps. There is some OSM community discussion on the UX behind this here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21769 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21769
    - stephen_g 13y ago
      Apple's maps are not just OpenStreetMap - there's a lot of other data sources in it too. For the OSM data Apple do use, I think it's quite old OSM data from 2010-2011 or something. As far as I remember, they used that because the license changed after that, so I believe that's under different terms.
- glennon 13y ago
  Doctor_Fegg makes a good point. The OSM Legal FAQ states: "For a browsable electronic map (e.g. embedded in a web page or mobile phone application), the credit should appear in the corner of the map, as commonly seen with map APIs/libraries such as Google Maps." Link: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_lik...
dalek2point3 13y ago
I agree -- the maps look great. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+boston https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+boston. There might be some complaints/confusion about attribution from the OSM community, but overall really happy to see a major search engine use OSM maps!

Looks great! Your new maps need to have an on-map credit to OpenStreetMap, as that's where the map data comes from, and OSM's licence requires attribution. osm.org/copyright explains how.

aroman 13y ago

Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
That's not on-map, that's hidden behind a click. osm.org/copyright makes it very clear that the attribution needs to be on-map. You don't see Google permitting people to hide their brand away like that!
- xrjn 13y ago
  You should rant about runkeeper too, as they do the same thing by hiding the OSM contributor information.
- incanus77 13y ago
  Apple does this too in all of their uses of OSM in their maps. There is some OSM community discussion on the UX behind this here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21769 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21769
  - stephen_g 13y ago
    Apple's maps are not just OpenStreetMap - there's a lot of other data sources in it too. For the OSM data Apple do use, I think it's quite old OSM data from 2010-2011 or something. As far as I remember, they used that because the license changed after that, so I believe that's under different terms.
glennon 13y ago
Doctor_Fegg makes a good point. The OSM Legal FAQ states: "For a browsable electronic map (e.g. embedded in a web page or mobile phone application), the credit should appear in the corner of the map, as commonly seen with map APIs/libraries such as Google Maps." Link: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3a._I_would_lik...

dalek2point3 13y ago

I agree -- the maps look great. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+boston https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+boston. There might be some complaints/confusion about attribution from the OSM community, but overall really happy to see a major search engine use OSM maps!