attribute OpenStreetMap properly (fix misleading attribution in the bottom right)

[matkoniecz]

Can be easily improved by replacing misleading attribution "MAPS.ME" in bottom right corner by © OpenStreetMap, © Booking.com for misplaced hotels or map data except hotel ads © OpenStreetMap or map data © OpenStreetMap, © Booking.com for misplaced hotels, style © MAPS.ME or something similar.

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Currently attribution of OSM data is effectively missing. It is present deeply hidden in settings, but it is effectively invisible.

To get it one needs to extended menu, settings menu, scroll down, "About MAPS.ME", scroll down, select "Copyright".

At the same time "MAPS.ME" credit text is always displayed in a bottom right corner of the map, what is at best misleading.

Proper attribution is present on the map, but only sometimes for about a second immediately after loading (not sure when it is appearing - maybe solely on the first load?).

Note that current situation is a clear violation of the ODBL license

You must include a notice associated with
the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses,
views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced
Work aware that Content was obtained from the Database, Derivative
Database, or the Database as part of a Collective Database, and that it
is available under this License.

Proper attribution is not optional or "nice to have", it is mandatory and using OSM data without it is a copyright violation.

see also #11203 for other part that can be done to stop using OSM data illegally

[matkoniecz]

I added MAPS.ME to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution#List_of_usages_lacking_proper_attribution

[rugk]

You are now also in the "illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap" repo:

Documenting eggregious cases of using OpenStreetMap without required attribution

https://github.com/matkoniecz/illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap/blob/master/MAPS.ME/MAPS.ME.md

[ghost]

Still no official statement or updates?

[matkoniecz]

https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a is a nice evidence that your strategy to mislead users about source of useful data in your app is successful

"maps.me (...) other alternatives: OpenStreetMap"

One more user successfully mislead about actual source of data. Despite that one of few requirements to use OSM data is to clearly attribute it.

Congratulations.

[ghost]

https://medium.com/s/story/how-i-fully-quit-google-and-you-can-too-4c2f3f85793a is a nice evidence that your strategy to mislead users about source of useful data in your app is successful

"maps.me (...) other alternatives: OpenStreetMap"

Congratulations.

But is this author (Nithin Coca) affiliated/working with maps.me? Or is it just a personal statement from some stranger?

[matkoniecz]

But is this author (Nithin Coca) affiliated/working with maps.me? Or is it just a personal statement from some stranger?

I guess that it is unaffiliated victim of MAPS.ME obscuring actual source of data.

ODBL requires users of data to clearly state source of data and make users aware about that. This article is one more piece of evidence that authors of MAPS.ME app failed to do this.

I added extra clarification.