Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?
by xenihn on Friday March 01, 2019 @03:43AM
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This is shitty, and if your post is true, I hope Footpath's owner addresses it, since they are (or were) actively participating in this discussion.
Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?
by ericrwolfe on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:04PM
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If you click through to the Twitter thread, there is a very active discussion and there still seems to be a lot of disagreement within the OpenStreetMap community on the topic of attribution, particularly on mobile.
Footpath uses the Mapbox SDK under the hood, and I was following Mapbox's documentation on attribution when I integrated the SDK.
I'm following the conversation, and plan to update the attribution once some consensus arises from the discussion.
As pointed out on Twitter, the Footpath app isn't complying with the attribution guidelines for the OpenStreetMap data that it uses:
https://twitter.com/iamnunocaldeira/status/11011052697933086...
OSM requests that "for a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner of the map". Footpath doesn't do this. It hides it away on a credits page.
Using the volunteer work of thousands of mappers, then refusing to comply with their stated attribution request, is really low. I had a lot of sympathy with Footpath before I realised this.