<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This is interesting — putting this out to the science list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Most research says something like “downloaded the planet file as of <date> and then did <type of data analysis>"<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But actually citing the database as a source… Perhaps something like: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OpenStreetMap Contributors (2019). OpenStreetMap Data [For a specific region if appropriate]. Retrieved May 16, 2019. <a href="https://planet.openstreetmap.org/" class="">https://planet.openstreetmap.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Or a different URL to wherever you got an extract from)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s just one proposed format that I think captures all of the necessary information for a complete citation (website-like)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Jennings</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 16, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" class="">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">if someone writes a scientific paper and wants to reference an OSM data<br class="">set they used, what would be the correct way to do that? Typically such<br class="">mentions contain author and name of the work, and publication place and<br class="">year. Or maybe the web-like "retrieved on ..."?<br class=""><br class="">Bye<br class="">Frederik<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Frederik Ramm ## <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" class="">eMail frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">talk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" class="">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>