[OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #966: Add att ribution control to map by default

[John Cole]

-1

And my reason for this is because of printing.  We have to put a copyright
notice for our HUD site, and we do it with a DIV tag similar to the scale
control and I assume the new attribution control.

But, when we print maps, we merge all of the layers into a single one for
printing to work, and I have MapServer put the copyright notice at the
bottom of the map (normally we do not want a layer just for copyright notice
and a separate WMS call, so the div tag works great for the interactive
map).

I really don't see it as too big a problem for developers to add the control
when necessary, but then I'm not a data provider and view the notices poorly
anyway :-)

John

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:dev-bounces at openlayers.org] On
Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:57 AM
To: dev at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #966: Add
attribution control to map by default

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:43:22PM -0000, OpenLayers wrote:
> #966: Add attribution control to map by default
>
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>  Reporter:  crschmidt  |       Owner:             
>      Type:  bug        |      Status:  new        
>  Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  2.6 Release
> Component:  Control    |     Version:  2.4        
>  Keywords:             |  
>
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>  In order to maek the attribution control useful, it should be on by
>  default. That way, layers can simply provide 'attribution' inside them,
>  and they will automatically be displayed on the map unless someone has
>  taken deliberate steps to ensure otherwise.

Can I get a vote on this?

By default, this control will do nothing -- if no layers have
attribution on them, then nothing shows up. However, if someone adds
'attribution' to the layer options, then it will show up -- rather than
needing to add attribution *and* the control.

The benefit is that some commercial organization can now provide a .js
file on their website that is *just* a layer class - and nothing else --
and expect it to work. I personally think this is kind of cool, and
would be in favor of it. 

Can I get a vote on this? All in favor of adding the Control.Attribution
to the map by default?

I'm +1.

(Demo of functionality is at
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/attribution.html , original ticket is
at http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/103)

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Christopher Schmidt
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