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UDST / vizicities

A framework for 3D geospatial visualization in the browser
http://vizicities.com
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add OpenStreetMap attribution when Overpass API is used #63

Open robhawkes opened 10 years ago

robhawkes commented 10 years ago

Before 0.1.0, we need to make sure OpenStreetMap is attributed as per their requirements. This should only be visible when the Overpass API is used (ie. when OpenStreetMap data is being used).

stefanw commented 10 years ago

I don't think you have to attribute OSM in the case of ViziCities. You do not use their rendered map tiles and don't create a database. You only use data to create a "Produced Work".

Of course attribution to OSM is always nice and makes it clear that data can be improved easily.

Matthias84 commented 10 years ago

IMHO you have to attribute to OSM as you use OSM dataset for constructing the (temporaly) 3D world. So you are free to relicense the result (as F4maps does) but in my opinion you need to fullfil the ODbL attribution.

Beside this legal aspect you should keep in mind that your result wouldn't be possible without a community that does crowdsourced micromapping, develop data schemas, develop APIs and toolchains, ... so I guess it's a question of fairness to give something back even if it's just an attribution.