Credits

Data sources

Much of what we show about places, maps and travel times comes from open data made by other people. We use it, we are grateful for it, and this page lists each source with its licence. Hotel prices and availability come from our booking suppliers, not from the sources below.

OpenStreetMap

Licence: ODbL 1.0 · openstreetmap.org/copyright

We use it for

Travel times on foot and by car (calculated with Valhalla from OpenStreetMap extracts)
Walking times to stations and stops, and the lines that serve them
Area names and town labels
Geocoding, with Photon and Nominatim
Map tiles on hotel and place maps

GeoNames

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · geonames.org/

We use it for

Place names, populations and centre points for cities and towns

Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons.wikimedia.org/ · Wikimedia Terms of Use · en.wikipedia.org

We use it for

Destination, event and landmark photographs
Some landmark descriptions (being replaced)

Each photograph carries its own licence (mostly CC BY-SA or CC BY, some public domain) and is credited on the image where it is shown. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 (and the GFDL). We are replacing the landmark descriptions that started from Wikipedia text with our own wording based on Wikidata facts. Photograph licences are set out on each file page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikidata

Licence: CC0 · wikidata.org/

We use it for

The list of notable landmarks and their coordinates

NASA POWER

Licence: POWER referencing terms · power.larc.nasa.gov/

We use it for

Long-term weather trends for a place

The data was obtained from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division. NASA POWER states no licence, only this wording for anyone using its data.

European Central Bank, via Frankfurter

Licence: ECB copyright and reuse terms · frankfurter.dev/

We use it for

Daily euro foreign exchange reference rates behind our currency conversions

Source: European Central Bank. The ECB allows free use of its published information if it is reproduced accurately, cited as the source, and any change is stated. We convert and calculate from the reference rates, so figures on our pages are converted, not the ECB's own. Most of our rates are ECB euro reference rates; AED and SAR are fixed central-bank pegs, which the ECB does not publish. Frankfurter passes the rates on and says each provider's own terms apply, so it adds none of its own.

Elevation data (Tilezen terrain tiles)

Licence: Tilezen attribution notes · github.com/tilezen/joerd

We use it for

Hills in walking times

ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736
Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers
Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved
United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

Terrain tiles come from the Tilezen (formerly Mapzen) elevation set on AWS Open Data and are used when we build our routing tiles.

OS Code-Point Open

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 · ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/code-point-open

We use it for

Where a UK postcode district such as SW5 or M1 is, when one is typed in the search box

We average the position of every postcode in each outward code (the part before the space) into one point per district. The data covers Great Britain only, so Northern Ireland (BT) postcodes are not recognised.

Natural Earth

Licence: Public domain · naturalearthdata.com/

We use it for

Country and continent outlines on destination pages

OurAirports

Licence: Public domain · ourairports.com/data/

We use it for

Airport names, codes and locations