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See original thread on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009Jun#Crediting_authors_of_OpenStreetMap_maps Here are additional thoughts I have on this: We might want a means of providing attribution to individual OpenStreetMap contributors, beyond just attributing "OpenStreetMap". This might actually be something to implement on OpenStreetMap, rather than here. Or it could be done on our OSM/maps toolserver. This could be a tool like Wikipedia page history statistics (http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl) that lists (in summarized form) contributors to a particular portion (bounding box) of the OpenStreetMap. Implementing something like this for OSM is a bit more complex, as there are questions of how to measure contributions. * Users could be listed according to number or size of edits to the map? * There also are data imports (e.g. TIGER) with attribution in the OSM tags. If such a tool or feature was implemented on OSM and accessible via API, then the SlippyMap extension might be able to pull information from there into a MediaWiki special page. For each map, no matter what, there would be some attribution text with a link. If we had this sort of attribution, the link could go to the special page or to the tool. Otherwise, if we decide against implementing such individual attribution, then the attribution would simply go to OSM or to the OSM history page for that bounding box.
