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Copyright and License
OpenStreetMap ® is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).
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 licence. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities.
Our documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA 2.0).
How to credit OpenStreetMap
We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”.
You must also make it clear that the data is available under the Open Database License. You may do this by linking to this copyright page . Alternatively, and as a requirement if you are distributing OSM in a data form, you can name and link directly to the license(s). In media where links are not possible (e.g. printed works), we suggest you direct your readers to openstreetmap.org (perhaps by expanding 'OpenStreetMap' to this full address) and to opendatacommons.org.
The map tiles in the “standard style” at www.openstreetmap.org are a Produced Work by the OpenStreetMap Foundation using OpenStreetMap data under the Open Database License. When using this map style, the same attribution is required as for the map data.
For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner of the map. For example:
Finding out more
Read more about using our data, and how to credit us, at the OSMF Licence page .
Although OpenStreetMap is open data, we cannot provide a free-of-charge map API 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:
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).
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.
Netherlands: Contains © AND data, 2007 ( www.and.com )
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 2010-19.
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.
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 .