Maperitive ad CommonMap / FOSM

[john whelan]

Igor is willing to change the copyright message displayed by Maperitive but asks the question if it can be picked up from the file?

> For CommonMap/FOSM people: if there is (or will be) a consistent system of getting the copyright text from the OSM file, I'm happy to use that instead of generic one. Is there a dedicated OSM XML (and PBF) tag for it?

Thanks John

[Mike Dupont]

that is an excellent question, a license tag would be a very good idea!

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[80n]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Mike Dupont
<jamesmi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> that is an excellent question, a license tag would be a very good idea!
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:07 PM, john whelan <jwhel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Igor is willing to change the copyright message displayed by Maperitive but
>> asks the question if it can be picked up from the file?
>>
>>> For CommonMap/FOSM people: if there is (or will be) a consistent system of
>>> getting the copyright text from the OSM file, I'm happy to use that instead
>>> of generic one. Is there a dedicated OSM XML (and PBF) tag for it?
>>

All .osm files generated by fosm have the following attributes in the <osm> tag:

<osm version='0.6' generator='FOSM API 0.6' copyright='2012 FOSM
contributors, OpenStreetMap contributors'
attribution='http://www.fosm.org/attribution' license='Creative
commons CC-BY-SA 2.0'>

Is that what is required?

80n

[john whelan]

I've asked the question to confirm but yes I think that will do fine.  I assume CommonMap will have something similar.

Thanks John

[john whelan]

Quote "That's fine, I'll implement it for the next release"

"Suggestion: you have three different tags, but it's hard for me to decide which one to use as an attribution text on the map. If I use all of them, the text will be huge. It would be nice to have a single tag which any software would know to pick up and show on the map (and the text should be abbrieviated for this purpose). Also, the http://www.fosm.org/attribution link redirects to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors, so no help there either.

I'll use the "copyright" tag for now."

Thanks John

On 20 May 2012 17:32, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: