Copyright and License

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain mapping data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. The community is organised by working groups, formal and informal local chapters and the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF). Note that the OSMF supports, but does not control the OSM project. The data output of OSM is governed by the Open Data Commons Open Database License.

The Open Data Commons Open Database License

OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the 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).
Please read the OSM’s complete licensing requirements before you use OSM data.
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.

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:

More details can be found in the attribution guidelines section of the licensing requirements.
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.

Additional Information

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.

For further details about the 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.