[Marble-devel] Printed directions footer line

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Michael,

I'm not a fan of these footers either... guess we can devote another 
checkbox to it in the print settings.

Regards,
Dennis

On 08.09.2010 20:58, Michael G. Hansen wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 11:11 AM, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> while working on the printing of driving instructions, I'm wondering
>> whether we should include a footer line (I think yes) and what to state
>> there. I think a reference to the data's license should be there, e.g.
>>
>> "OpenRouteService data can be used freely under the terms of the
>> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license
>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License>."
>>
>> Popular map services also state some warnings (see below for examples).
>> Advising users to do reality checks (Yahoo) sounds silly to me, but
>> warning of differences to the plan because of e.g. traffic makes sense.
>>
>> A more complete footer line for Marble may look like this then:
>>
>> "The driving instructions may be incomplete or inaccurate. Construction
>> projects, traffic and other circumstances can cause differences. Driving
>> instructions were generated by OpenRouteService and can be used freely
>> under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
>> license<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License>.
>> The Marble development team wishes a pleasant and safe journey.
>> http://edu.kde.org/marble"
>>
>> Sounds a bit clunky. Suggestions? :-)
>>      
>    From a users perspective, it would be nice to be able to switch these
> warnings off to save space. I have a TomTom and it often bugs me with
> 'Don't use me while driving, don't rely on me too much, and such, hit
> continue to continue', so being able to avoid all the legal talk would
> be a huge benefit of open source software ;-) Or at least being able to
> switch to a short 'Directions powered by OpenRouteService - CC-BY-SA 2.0'.
>
> For comparison, Okular also respects DRM restrictions in PDF files by
> default, but there is a checkbox to make it ignore these.
>
> Michael
>
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