VeroMaps

VeroMaps

Sources & licences

How places are labelled

Most places on VeroMaps were imported from Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. They are listings, not community finds, and each one says so on its page (“Imported from Wikipedia” or “Imported from OpenStreetMap”). A place only counts as checked once an explorer has been there and taken a live photo or a sound reading. Places an explorer adds in the field are marked “Found on-site by an explorer”.

We don't show quiet scores, safety scores, ratings, visit counts or walking times that nobody measured. Where there is no real reading yet, the page shows nothing.

Map

  • OpenStreetMap — the streets, buildings and places drawn on every map, the offline country packs, and thousands of imported places (via the Overpass API). The data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.© OpenStreetMap contributors
  • OpenFreeMap — the day and night map style and vector tiles, built with OpenMapTiles from OpenStreetMap data.OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles · Data from OpenStreetMap
  • OpenMapTiles — the vector tile schema and style the map is drawn with.© OpenMapTiles
  • Protomaps — the offline country pack format (PMTiles), sprites and glyphs. Fonts: Noto Sans, SIL Open Font License 1.1.Protomaps © OpenStreetMap contributors
  • Esri World Imagery — the satellite map layer.Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community
  • OpenTopoMap — the terrain map layer, drawn from OpenStreetMap and SRTM elevation data, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0.Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, SRTM · Map style: © OpenTopoMap (CC BY-SA)

Place descriptions and photos

  • Wikipedia — short excerpts of English and Dutch Wikipedia articles used as place descriptions. Each place page names and links its source article. The text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.Text: excerpt of the linked article, Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Excerpts are shortened.
  • Wikimedia Commons — archive photos of places. Each photo keeps its own author and licence; the “Photo: Wikimedia Commons” link under a place opens the file's page with both.
  • Wikidata — matching OpenStreetMap places to their Commons photo. Wikidata is shared under CC0 1.0.
  • OpenStreetMap — names, positions, addresses and kinds of imported places. Each imported place links to its spot on OpenStreetMap. ODbL 1.0.© OpenStreetMap contributors

Search, routes and weather

  • Nominatim — address search and reverse geocoding, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation on OpenStreetMap data.© OpenStreetMap contributors
  • FOSSGIS routing (routing.openstreetmap.de) — walking, cycling and driving routes (OSRM on OpenStreetMap data).© OpenStreetMap contributors
  • Project OSRM — a fallback driving route when the routing server above is busy.© OpenStreetMap contributors
  • openrouteservice — routes, when it is configured.© openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT · Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
  • Open-Meteo — current weather at a place. Weather data is shared under CC BY 4.0.Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
  • LibreTranslate / Argos Translate — machine translation of place text into your language, on request.
  • GeoJS, ipwho.is and ip-api — a rough starting position for the map from your IP address, when you have not shared your location.

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