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I've asked this on talk-legal but so far no response. I need to cite OSM in an academic paper I contributed to: I used Overpass Turbo to extract some data and presented it in a graphical form. Obviously I need to use the correct attribution. I'm also required to use Vancouver style. For datasets Vancouver requires: Investigator(s) names. Title of dataset [medium type]. Host institution name/Producer: Physical location; Year of publication [Date accessed]. Available from: Identifier – DOI or URL This is what I've decided on. OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap database [PostgreSQL via API]. OpenStreetMap Foundation: Cambridge, UK; 2021 [cited 22 Dec 2021]. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Available under the Open Database Licence from: openstreetmap.org. Data mining by Overpass turbo. Available at overpass-turbo.eu. Can anyone comment - does this ^ look right? Thank you. |
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Hello, I think this the reference page. You will find some information there, and you might want to add your findings to help future scholars with the same requirements. I don't know much about academic citation, but your proposition looks great. Only remark, I would replace the link overpass-turbo.eu by the link of the exact request used. Regards. |
I'm sure this has been asked before & there must be tens to hundreds of examples in the literature. Check papers from Peter Mooney, Alexander Zipf's Heidelberg group etc. However, it looks to me as though the Vancouver style is ill-suited to the actual nature of OSM. (Personally, I think all numeric reference styles are pretty horrible as although they save space they are poor for immediate cross-reference whilst reading the article).
For instance there are several examples here https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/8/528/htm#B39-ijgi-10-00528
Thank you; what I have looks close enough then. Agree with you on numerical referencing. And the 'house style' seems to come from a days when a database had a single physical location. i'm no techie, but that seems a bit old hat by now.