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Copyright and License
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OpenStreetMap licensing
OpenStreetMap is
open
data, licensed under the
Open Data Commons Open Database License
(ODbL) by the
OpenStreetMap Foundation
(OSMF). In summary:
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data,
as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its
contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you
may distribute the result only under the same license. The
full legal code at Open Data Commons
explains your rights and responsibilities.
Our documentation is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license
(CC BY-SA 2.0).
Read more about using our data at the
OSMF Licence page
How to credit OpenStreetMap
Where you use OpenStreetMap data, you are required to do the following two things:
Provide credit to OpenStreetMap by displaying our attribution notice.
Make clear that the data is available under the Open Database License.
For the attribution notice, we have different
requirements on how this should be displayed
, depending on how you are using our data.
For example, different rules apply on how to show the attribution notice depending on whether you have
created a browsable map, a printed map or a static image.
More details can be found in the
attribution guidelines
section of
the licensing requirements
Generally speaking,
to make clear that the data is available under the Open
Database License, you may link to
this copyright page
If you are distributing OSM in
data form, please name and link directly to the license(s). In media
where links are not possible (e.g. printed works),
please include the full URL on the page, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
In this example, the credit appears in the corner of the map:
Copyright infringement
OSM contributors are reminded never to add data from any
copyrighted sources (e.g. Google Maps or printed maps) without
explicit permission from the copyright holders.
If you believe that copyrighted material has been inappropriately
added to the OpenStreetMap database or this site, please refer
to our
takedown procedure
or file directly at our
on-line filing page
Trademarks
OpenStreetMap, the magnifying glass logo, and State of the Map are registered trademarks of the
OpenStreetMap Foundation. If you have questions about your use of the marks, please see our
Trademark Policy
Additional services
Although OpenStreetMap is open data, we cannot provide a
free-of-charge map API or map tiles for third-parties.
See our
API Usage Policy
Tile Usage Policy
and
Nominatim Usage Policy
Our contributors
Our contributors are thousands of individuals. We also include
openly-licensed data from national mapping agencies
and other sources, among them:
Austria
: Contains data from
Stadt Wien
(under
CC BY
),
Land Vorarlberg
and Land Tirol (under
CC BY AT with amendments
).
Australia
: Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries ©
Geoscape Australia
licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)
Canada
: Contains data from
GeoBase®, GeoGratis (© Department of Natural
Resources Canada), CanVec (© Department of Natural
Resources Canada), and StatCan (Geography Division,
Statistics Canada).
Czechia
: Contains data from the State Administration of Land Surveying
and Cadastre licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)
Finland
: Contains data from the
National Land Survey of Finland's Topographic Database
and other datasets, under the
NLSFI License
France
: Contains data sourced from
Direction Générale des Impôts.
Croatia
: Contains data from the
State Geodetic Administration of Croatia
and
National Open Data Portal
(public information of Croatia).
Netherlands
: Contains © AND data, 2007
New Zealand
: Contains data sourced from the
LINZ Data Service
and licensed for reuse under
CC BY 4.0
Serbia
: Contains data from the
Serbian Geodetic Authority
and
National Open Data Portal
(public information of Serbia), 2018.
Slovenia
: Contains data from the
Surveying and Mapping Authority
and
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food
(public information of Slovenia).
Spain
: Contains data sourced from the
Spanish National Geographic Institute (
IGN
) and
National Cartographic System (
SCNE
licensed for reuse under
CC BY 4.0
South Africa
: Contains data sourced from
Chief Directorate: National Geo-Spatial Information
, State copyright reserved.
United Kingdom
: Contains Ordnance
Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
2010-2023.
For further details of these, and other sources that have been used
to help improve OpenStreetMap, please see the
Contributors page
on the OpenStreetMap Wiki.
Inclusion of data in OpenStreetMap does not imply that the original
data provider endorses OpenStreetMap, provides any warranty, or
accepts any liability.