Do HTML versions of Openstreetmap data still count as produced works?

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I am working on an MIT-licensed project that uses OpenStreetMap data (in tile form) within both PNG- and HTML-based charts. (Here’s a sample HTML-based map; its source code can be found here.) I didn’t make any edits to the underlying OpenStreetMap data; I’m simply using that data (via Plotly) to add cities, bodies of water, and other geographic/political features to my maps.

My understanding of the Open Database License is that these charts are produced works, and thus do not need to be shared under the CC-BY-SA or a similar license. However, I wanted to make sure that this is the case both for PNG-based and HTML-based charts. If anyone could confirm this, I’d greatly appreciate it!

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Others might be able to give you more detailed guidance related to your use case, but in the meantime have you seen the Licence/legal FAQ?

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That’s very helpful–thank you! I had referenced the ODBL itself and a briefer FAQ, but this one had the details that I needed. It looks like using HTML-based maps within my work won’t be an issue.

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The point to note that this is rarely about the format the data is in (in this case it isn’t in HTML in any case, but you could easily generate something with HTML that isn’t a produced work), it’s most of the time a use/intention based criteria plus is it still a database.

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