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How to find all web sites with maps that use the OSM tiles?

2 points by tapiok ↗ HN
I would like to get a list of web sites containing maps, that use tiles, served by the openstreetmap (*.tile.openstreetmap.org). I want to get a list of sites that do not show a proper attribution, which is required by the OSM license.

I suspect I will need to build a web scraper and configure a web bot to crawl the web as Google / Microsoft standard offerings do not seem to support this use case(?). What is the best tool/service/approach to do this?

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stereo
You could start with https://planet.openstreetmap.org/tile_logs/
tapiok
Thanks for the link. In the first 10 ones I already found a couple of offenders.
matkoniecz
Oh, that is quite interesting idea that I missed so far.

In case that you would go through them and manage to identify problematic cases: can you share list?

Either here, contact me somehow or even add cases to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attributi... listing?

tapiok
I believe the way the OSM community goes about "enforcing" the license is lacking on many fronts, which I suspect is a sentiment shared by many (but not most) mappers. I have a proposal for addressing the problem a part of which is mass identification of the users of the tiles and the offenders, but also introduction of a (hopefully) community-acceptable way to enFORCE the license.

As a first step I wanted to get at least rough numbers about the scale of the offenses. I will present the proposal either on the legal talk list or write a blog post.

matkoniecz
> I believe the way the OSM community goes about "enforcing" the license is lacking on many fronts

Main of them is that it is barely happening.