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Attribution & data sources

Airfree Maps runs on our own internal map graphs built from open and licensed data — never a third-party map provider. This page records exactly what we use and the attribution you must display.

The attribution you must show

Wherever you display Airfree Maps imagery, tiles or geocoded results, you must show the data attribution:

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Our interactive maps show this automatically. If you build your own interface with our tiles or data, you are responsible for displaying it — see licensing for your obligations under the Open Database License (ODbL), including share-alike.

Data sources

OpenStreetMap

Share-alike

Powers: Base maps, vector & raster tiles, geocoding, search and routing

Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0

Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors

The core geographic database. We process and host OpenStreetMap data ourselves; your requests do not go to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Derivative databases you create are subject to ODbL share-alike. More

OpenMapTiles schema

Share-alike

Powers: The vector-tile schema our base-map tiles are built to

Licence: BSD-3-Clause (schema); tiles remain ODbL (from OpenStreetMap)

Attribution: © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

The open vector-tile schema used to generate our base-map tiles from OpenStreetMap with planetiler. More

Natural Earth

Powers: Low-zoom base imagery for the 3D globe

Licence: Public domain

Attribution: Natural Earth (public domain)

Public-domain small-scale raster data. No attribution is legally required; we credit it as a courtesy. More

Noto Sans (Google Noto)

Powers: Map label glyphs

Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Attribution: Noto fonts © Google

Open-licensed fonts used to render map labels. More

Built with open-source software

Airfree Maps is built on open-source engines. We acknowledge them with gratitude:

  • MapLibre GL (BSD-3-Clause) — Interactive map rendering in the browser.
  • Valhalla (Open source (MIT)) — Routing and matrix engine.
  • Nominatim (GPL-2.0) — Geocoding and search engine.
  • planetiler (Apache-2.0) — Vector-tile generation from OpenStreetMap.
  • tileserver-gl (BSD-2-Clause) — Tile and style serving.

Questions

For data-provenance or licensing questions, contact legal@airfree.au.