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== Is OpenStreetMap data free? == ~~Yes. There are no fees or royalty payments of any kind.~~ OSM data is free to use for any purpose, including commercial use, and use ~~== Are there restrictions on using OpenStreetMap data? ==~~ is governed by our distribution licence, the ODbL. See [[Licence]] for more information.▼ ~~There are no restrictions on who can use the data. Individuals, clubs, societies, charities, academe, government, commercial companies. When we say everyone, we mean everyone.~~ There are no restrictions on where you can use the data. Privately or publicly. Commercially or non-commercially. Paper maps, electronic maps, books, newspapers, TV, gazeteers, search systems, routing, games ... or indeed anything you can think of that will surprise us. ~~There are two restrictions, some call them freedoms, on how you use the data. See the following sections on '''Attribution''' and '''Share-Alike'''.~~ ▲See [[Licence]] for more information. ~~=== Attribution ===~~ ~~We would like you to [http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright tell people where you got your data from].~~ ~~See [[Licence]] for more information.~~ ~~=== Share-Alike ===~~ We would like more data to be made publicly and freely available. We use the [http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright ODbL 1.0] as our distribution licence. If you improve our data and want to distribute the new data, it must be done under the same license. If you make a map, you are free to publish that under whatever license you like as long as you attribute OSM correctly. ~~See [[Licence]] for more information.~~ === Can I enter into an agreement with you for use of your map data? ===