Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > if someone writes a scientific paper and wants to reference an OSM data > set they used, what would be the correct way to do that? Typically such > mentions contain author and name of the work, and publication place and > year. Or maybe the web-like "retrieved on ..."?
I vote for not retrieved on but the date the data was extracted from the main database, looking like "openstreetmap.org vector map data, OpenStreetMap Contributors, extracted YYYY-MM-DD HHMM UTC". My impression is that the publication date is for things where a journal publishes them, and perhaps self-published blog posts, but for something that is continuously modified, it doesn't really make sense. It's also good to give a second citation to a journal article that gives an overview the project, and surely that exists by now. But I think the most important thing is an unambiguous pointer to both OSM and the epoch of data. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
