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There are many contributors to OpenStreetMap. There are over half a million registered OpenStreetMap users (stats).

It is impossible to adequately acknowledge the many individuals who survey their neighbourhoods with GPS and notepad to contribute the most complete, most current, most accurate data to OpenStreetMap. Also, some publishers (listed and attributed below) allow their data to be included in OpenStreetMap.

If you are looking for how to attribute OSM, see Legal FAQ

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Finding Contributors

You may wish to try and find a list of contributors in a specific area. Perhaps you are attempting to comply with the 'attribution' requirement of the OpenStreetMap License (although it should be noted that these requirements are often interpreted less strictly)

You can do this by browsing to the desired area, and moving to the 'history' tab, which displays details of all changesets intersecting this area. Generally the display includes a large number of 'big' changesets which covered a big area, and which are less likely to include significant updates actually within your desired area (but can't be sure)

You can find users who have last edited all elements in an area. This information is returned in map call e.g. the data you get when you download an area in JOSM. This can also be visualised using OSM Mapper. However this may be discounting the original creators of elements (possibly a more important contribution). You can find the original creator of an element, and all users who have since edited the element, by querying its history. Through the API, your query would be of the form http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/<objtype>/<id>/history where <objtype> is: 'way' or 'node' and <id> is the ID number of the item. This would have to be performed for every node and way within the area.

Contributor specific attribution and disclaimer

In addition to the individual contributions from our members, several commercial and government bodies have contributed and / or permitted to be contributed their data to OpenStreetMap. This may only be a partial list. Imports are also listed at Import/Catalogue

Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Contains suburbs data based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

See ABS website for more information

Australian government public information datasets

Contains data from Australian government public information datasets. The original datasets are available from the Australian government data website under Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) and Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY). We have also been given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license, including the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution is made here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the format Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally retrieved from http://data.australia.gov.au:

The above permission *may* also extend to the following datasets also incorporated. This is being investigated (2011-09-22).

New South Wales Geographic Names Board place names

Contains place names originally retrieved from New South Wales Geographic Names Board . This material is licensed as per http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/copyright and copyright is subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968, vested in the Crown in the right of the State of New South Wales.

Canada

Natural Resources Canada

GeoBase

The Licensee shall identify GeoBase® as a data source where any of the Data are redistributed, or contained within Derivative Products, and use of the Data shall not be construed as an endorsement by GeoBase® of those Derivative Products.

GeoGratis

© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved. Use of the Data shall not be construed as an endorsement by Canada of any Derivative Products.

CanVec

© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved. Use of the Data shall not be construed as an endorsement by Canada of any Derivative Products.

Toporama

© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved. Use of the Data shall not be construed as an endorsement by Canada of any Derivative Products.

StatCan

Source: Geography Division, Statistics Canada, 2008 Road Network File, catalogue number 92-500-XWE, 92-500-XWF

The incorporation of data sourced from Statistics Canada within this product shall not be construed as constituting an endorsement by Statistics Canada of such product.

Caribbean

Haiti

Some post-earthquake data in and around Port-au-Prince Haiti is derived by permission from images copyright GeoEye.

On 14 January 2010, GeoEye granted OpenStreetMap permission to derive data from a limited set of their aerial images related to the Haiti earthquake of Tuesday 12 January 2010. Find more information on the WikiProject Haiti Page.

Europe

Austria

AND

fill in here

Denmark

Fugro Aerial Mapping

Provided a complete set of aerial imagery covering all of Denmark for use by OpenStreetMap. More details can be found here.

Haderslev municipality

Provided a set of data such as parking areas, schools, hotels etc. More details can be found here (in Danish)

KMS

Provided a dump of all address points from 2002. More details here.

Kolding municipality

Provided building data (and more?).

OIOREST Geoservicen

Web service run by IT & Telestyrelsen which provides access to updated address data. License information.

Stevns municipality

Provided a comprehensive set of data including buildings, water features, roads as well as high-resolution aerial imagery covering Stevns. More info here.

France

Contains cadastral data sourced from Direction Générale des Impôts.

Germany

Bayern

Im Rahmen der OpenData-Bewegung gibt die Bayrische Vermessungsverwaltung folgende Daten zur Nutzung für OSM frei:

(aber NICHT Topo 50)

Es gelten die selben Nutzungs-Bedingungen wie beim Pilotprojekt "Luftbilder aus Bayern":

Die Daten bleiben im Besitz der Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung, dürfen aber zum Abzeichnen benutzt werden.

Abgeleitete Daten - also OSM-Elemente - gehören OSM und dürfen unter der OSM-Lizenz veröffentlicht werden. --Markus 19:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Under CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 German License (Datenquelle: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de). See [1] for more information. Only the data licensed under CC-BY may be used for OSM!

Norc.ro

Donated 30GB of tracks (available under NorcTracks account) and the possibility to derive data from their street-view like images for all the countries. See Norc website for more information.

Poland: UMP pcPL

Contains data from the UMP pcPL project (http://ump.waw.pl/ and also in English) and owned by this project's contributors. This data is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike license. This is a community project in Poland very similar in spirit to OSM but with a focus on providing very high-quality road data for Garmin GPS devices. The UMP community has been mapping since 2001, before OSM. OpenStreetMap acknowledges the great kick-start UMP-pcPL data gave in creating a map of Poland. More about how UMP-pcPL was used can be found here here

Switzerland

Communal and other administrative borders imported with permission from SwissTopo

Sweden

Includes Skåneleden hiking trails provided by Stiftelsen Skånska Landskap. See Skåneleden project page for more details.

UK: Ordnance Survey (OpenData™)

The OpenStreetMap Database covering the United Kingdom "Contains Ordnance Survey Data © Crown copyright and database right 2010." Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0.

Specifically OpenStreetMap has used products released by Ordnance Survey as part of the OpenData™ suite on 1st April 2010. OpenStreetMap contributors are asked to also add a source tag to data entered into OpenStreetMap where this has specifically originated from an Ordnance Survey OpenData™ product.

Ordnance Survey OpenData™ products are a mixture of vector and raster products. Where OpenStreetMap contributors have made use of raster data (mapping images) then any data from these within the OpenStreetMap database will have been derived, principally by hand tracing. Where Ordnance Survey OpenData™ products were made available in vector format, these may have been partially or completely imported into OpenStreetMap as modified vector data. Modification may include subtle positional modification or modification of data attributes.

Ordnance Survey does not endorse OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap's use of Ordnance Survey OpenData™ product data.

Ordnance Survey OpenData™ products and OpenStreetMap

Middle East

Israel

Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (KKL) Land Development Authority

Contains data sourced from GIS Project of KKL Land Development Authority, Israel. KKL Land Development Authority gives no warranty in relation to the data, including its accuracy, reliability and suitability and accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to any loss, damage or other costs relating to the use of any data, any compilations, derivative works or modifications of the data.


New Zealand

LINZ

Contains data sourced from Land Information New Zealand. Crown Copyright reserved. Land Information New Zealand gives no warranty in relation to the data, including its accuracy, reliability and suitability and accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to any loss, damage or other costs relating to the use of any data, any compilations, derivative works or modifications of the data.

See LINZ's website and the OSM LINZ wiki page for more information.

Department of Conservation (DOC) (New Zealand)

The information and data are provided as a public service by the Department of Conservation (DOC) under the following conditions:

1) The information supplied is provided for general information only.
2) The Department of Conservation makes no claims, promises or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the information, or its suitability for any purpose.
3) The Department of Conservation does not accept any liability for the content and shall not be responsible or liable for any claims of any kind arising from the use of the information.
4) The Crown (through the Department of Conservation) remains the sole owner of the intellectual property in the information on this disk.

See DOC#Data_Attribution for more details

Christchurch City Council

Licensed from Christchurch City Council under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

Manawatu District Council

Licensed from Manawatu District Council under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License.

United States

TIGER

The Census TIGER data base is the source for maps generated by the TIGER Map Service. The data used to create the maps comes from the Census Bureau, an agency of the U.S. Government, and is in the public domain. Thus the maps you can download from this site are in the public domain and you are free to use them as you choose.

NHD / USGS

Hydrography data in the US can come from NHD.

USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. public domain.

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior/USGS U.S. Geological Survey[1]

District of Columbia OCTO

The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the Government of the District of Columbia. Neither the District of Columbia Government nor the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) makes any claims as to the completeness, accuracy or content of any data contained in this application; makes any representation of any kind, including, but not limited to, warranty of the accuracy or fitness for a particular use; nor are any such warranties to be implied or inferred with respect to the information or data furnished herein. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the web feed is being used at one's own risk

Virginia Department of Transportation

On 2011-05-09, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) provided User:Joshdoe the following access and use constraint statement.

The data you have requested from VDOT are provided to you as exports from VDOT's GIS database. Although the database is the intellectual property of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the data files are not copyrighted and are provided to you without the need for a license. Should you need a copy of our database, however, we will need to negotiate a license agreement. GIS files provided to you include the following provisions, which apply to such files:
Access Constraints:
The appropriate VDOT Division is the point of contact for any party who requires access or further information regarding this data. Please refer to the metadata to determine contact vehicles.
Use Constraints:
Disclaimer: Any person, organization, firm, corporation or other entity using this database does so at its own risk. The Virginia Department of Transportation accepts no liability for any loss suffered by any person, organization, firm, corporation, or other entity from the use of the information in this database. In addition, the Virginia Department of Transportation does not guarantee system availability and is not responsible for any losses associated with any system unavailability.
VDOT's digital data files are for use in performing the official business of the Commonwealth of Virginia. VDOT Divisions set all policy on the allowable uses of this data.
The representations of VDOT business data contained within are believed to be correct. This data is provided without any guarantee of accuracy, timeliness or completeness. No business decisions should be made based on this data without first validating its accuracy against the official Source System of Record (SSR). Users of this data are solely responsible for determining if it is appropriate for their application.
Please report errors and omissions directly to the appropriate VDOT Division data owner.

MASSGIS

PGS, Prototype Global Shoreline Data set

The Prototype Global Shoreline Data set is a global satellite-derived approximation of high water line) provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency of the USA. It is assumed to be released under section 105 of the US Copyright Act and so effectively public domain, (confirmation has been requested 2011-09-29).

Russia

Data by Administration of Rybinsk.

Others

Since detail on the contributions is missing, these are listed here:

  1. ↑ http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html
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