Data sources and licences
Every place page ends with the sources that page used. These are all the sources the site draws on.
- Terrain
- Copernicus DEM GLO-30 and GLO-90; USGS 3DEP in the United States
- Relief on large maps
- NOAA NCEI ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model (public domain)
- Imagery
- Copernicus Sentinel-2 scenes (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data)
- Land cover
- ESA WorldCover 2021
- Places and facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, lakes, camping, parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits nearby
- OpenStreetMap via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Base map
- OpenFreeMap, from OpenStreetMap data
- Forecast
- MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); NOAA National Weather Service in the United States (public domain)
- Protected areas (US)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Methods
Elevations, prominence, slopes and areas are computed from the terrain models above, so they can differ from surveyed values; place pages show how the models compare where more than one covers the place. Lists rank the places we have built, not every place on Earth.
Downloads (3D models, GPX tracks, maps) carry the same licences as the data they are made from: OpenStreetMap-derived files are ODbL.