= OpenStreetMap Attribution Guideline =
[[Board/Minutes/2021-06#Vote|Adopted]] by the OpenStreetMap Foundation board on 2021-06-25.

== Introduction ==
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL). If you want to use OpenStreetMap data in something you create and distribute, you must attribute OpenStreetMap.

While attribution is required, the way it must be done depends on the type of map, database, or other creation involved, and how it is presented.

Note that attribution is only necessary when a Produced Work is used Publicly (as defined by the ODbL). This guideline does not concern internal uses.

The base requirement in ODbL is attribution that is “…reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was obtained from [OpenStreetMap] …”.

These guidelines are not a substitute for the legal text itself. If the two texts disagree, the legal text takes precedence.

The guidelines may not be the only, best or absolute minimum attribution necessary under the licence and under applicable law. They are intended to provide a technically feasible safe harbour that OSMF believes satisfies the legal requirements under the ODbL and the OpenStreetMap contributor terms, but they are also an expression of best practices and values that the OSM community socially and ethically expects data reusers to follow.

As the guidelines seek to support the OSMF’s continuing mission, compliance today does not mean that we will not propose or ask for different attribution guidelines in the future if it promotes our shared goals.

You may, of course, provide even better and more prominent attribution.

== Why attribution is important ==
Attribution encourages others to use OSM data by making obvious where it is coming from and under which conditions it can be used.

It also helps recruit contributors and encourages them to contribute more, boosting a virtuous 