I want to know if I can copy Mapillary individual images of water fountains to wikimedia commons ? I don’t have specific plans, but just wanted to know if it was possible.
Yes it does. In a CC license you’ve got “BY” for attribution, “SA” for share under the same license, “NC” for non-commercial use only and “ND” for no derived works. So “CC BY-SA” means you must include attribution and must share under the same license, you may use it commercially and you may include it in a new work (a cropped image is a new work that is derived from the original).
For license put “CC BY-SA 4.0”, and for attribution at the every least put “username at Mapillary.com”, and optionally the date/year and a link back to the original.
Thank you very much for noticing this ! I changed some code this afternoon as part of our phase 2 launch to add cafes and bars which offer free water as part of our refill program and somehow deleted a couple of lines of code for Mapillary image inclusion.
I am not sure why you’ve decided on going the long and complicated route of linking wikimedia images. Needs a lot of user input and is just a faff.
I thought mapillary offered functionality to show images with the heading towards specified coordinates (like osmand and mapsme webs do)
You are correct. In general, copying an image to wikimedia commons makes very little sense. But I have seen a couple random shots of fountains which might merit being linked to a wikidata item -hence the question
In general, the best seems to add the Mapillary image_key directly to the OSM node or way.
The other scenario which might merit copying to wikimedia commons is if an image needs to be cropped and recentered to fit purpose … agree this is unlikely … but better to know before infringing on any license requirements
I can also talk about drinking water fountains for hours !