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Third-party data & attributions
TREK bundles and uses third-party data that requires attribution.
geoBoundaries — country & sub-national boundaries
The Atlas map's administrative boundaries (admin-0 countries and admin-1
provinces/counties), shipped at server/assets/atlas/admin0.geojson.gz and
server/assets/atlas/admin1.geojson.gz and generated by
server/scripts/build-atlas-geo.mjs, are derived from geoBoundaries.
Runfola, D. et al. (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
geoBoundaries is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: https://www.geoboundaries.org/
The bundled files are simplified (coordinate-quantized) and re-tagged with the
property names TREK consumes. Country borders (admin0) derive from the geoBoundaries
CGAZ composite; sub-national regions (admin1) derive from the per-country open
(gbOpen) release.
OpenStreetMap — geocoding, place details & descriptions
Atlas reverse-geocodes places via the Nominatim service, and place search, details and descriptions come from Nominatim and Overpass. Data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Wikimedia Commons & Wikipedia — place pictures & descriptions
Pictures offered for a place come from Wikimedia Commons (geosearch by
coordinate) and are cached locally rather than hotlinked. Descriptions can come
from Wikipedia, resolved from the place's OpenStreetMap wikipedia tag.
Commons files carry their own licence, most often CC BY or CC BY-SA. TREK shows the author, the licence and a link to the file description page next to every picture while it is being chosen, and keeps the author and licence with the cached file so the credit stays visible afterwards. Wikipedia article text is CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Google Places — optional place data
When an administrator configures a Google Maps API key, place search, details, pictures and editorial summaries can also come from the Google Places API, subject to Google's terms. Photos carry the author attribution Google supplies and no reusable licence; TREK displays that attribution and claims nothing further. This path is off unless a key is configured, and each part of it has its own switch in the admin panel. https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
OurAirports — airport reference data
server/assets/airports.json is built from OurAirports
(https://ourairports.com/data/), released into the public domain.