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Data credits and licences

Everything MapRecap draws into a file you download — a video, a story image, a passport — comes from public-domain or openly licensed sources. This page lists them, starting with the elevation data used by the GPX 3D flyover.

Credit statements quoted on this page are reproduced exactly as their licensors require, so they are not translated.

The credit line in terrain videos

When the area shown in a GPX 3D flyover video uses elevation data whose licence requires a credit, every frame — the live preview and every exported frame — carries a data credit at the bottom. It always starts with this line:

Elevation: Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS, all elevation data modified by MapRecap · SRTM, GMTED2010, 3DEP courtesy of USGS · ETOPO1: NOAA NGDC · Full credits: maprecap.com/credits

Then it adds one line for each regional data source whose coverage overlaps the area shown in the video. Those lines are listed below as "Line in the video".

You may use terrain videos commercially, like every MapRecap export, as long as this credit stays visible: do not crop, blur or cover it. A video whose area uses only US public-domain data (SRTM, 3DEP, GMTED2010, ETOPO1 — for example most of the United States, Latin America, Africa and Asia) carries no credit at all, because those sources do not require one.

Elevation data

The terrain comes from Mapzen Terrain Tiles, a global elevation mosaic hosted on AWS. The tiles combine the datasets below; which ones a video uses depends on where the route goes.

Terrain Tiles (Terrarium encoding)

Global elevation tiles built by Mapzen’s joerd in 2016–2017 from the sources below, encoded as Terrarium RGB PNGs. Registry citation: replace DATE with the date of your export.

Provider
Mapzen (a Linux Foundation project) · Tilezen joerd · Registry of Open Data on AWS
Licence
No licence of its own — each source dataset’s licence applies
Credit
Mapzen
Citation
Terrain Tiles was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles.

Links registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles · joerd — data sources · joerd — attribution

SRTM · GMTED2010 · 3DEP (formerly NED)

SRTM covers land between 60°N and 56°S; GMTED2010 is the global low-zoom layer; 3DEP covers the United States. Credited in the first line whenever a video carries a credit; on their own they require none.

Provider
U.S. Geological Survey (SRTM: NASA / NGA, distributed by USGS)
Licence
Public domain in the United States
Credit
United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Links USGS EROS — SRTM · USGS EROS — GMTED2010 · USGS — 3D Elevation Program

ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model

Global relief including the ocean floor. Credited in the first line whenever a video carries a credit; on its own it requires none. Not to be used for navigation.

Provider
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly National Geophysical Data Center)
Licence
Public domain in the United States
Credit
Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Citation
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. 2009: ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
Citation
Amante, C. and B.W. Eakins, 2009. ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5C8276M

Links NCEI — ETOPO1 · doi:10.7289/V5C8276M

EU-DEM

The European elevation model. The European Union does not endorse MapRecap or its use of the data. No DOI is published for EU-DEM; the EEA records are linked below.

Provider
European Environment Agency · Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (European Union)
Licence
Copernicus data policy — Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 · CLMS data policy
Added when the video shows
Europe
Line in the video
Generated using European Union's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information (EU-DEM)
Wording used by the tile builder (joerd, 2017)
Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers.

Links EEA — EU-DEM v1.1 · EEA — EU-DEM v1.0

Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich, 10 m

Austria’s 10 m terrain model, published on data.gv.at by Land Kärnten (contact point geoland.at). It was added to the tiles under CC BY 3.0 AT; the catalogue lists CC BY 4.0 today.

Provider
Land Kärnten · geoland.at · data.gv.at
Licence
CC BY 3.0 AT · CC BY 4.0
Added when the video shows
Austria
Line in the video
Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich © Land Kärnten / geoland.at, CC BY 3.0 AT / CC BY 4.0
Wording used by the tile builder (joerd, 2017)
© offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich.

Links data.gv.at — DGM Österreich

Kartverket digital terrain model, 10 m

Norway’s 10 m terrain model. Kartverket asks that its name appears wherever the data is used.

Provider
Kartverket (Norwegian Mapping Authority)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Added when the video shows
Norway
Line in the video
© Kartverket

Links kartverket.no — terms of use · kartverket.no

LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM) 2 m

England’s LIDAR composite. The tiles were built from the 2015 edition, which is the statement in the video; the dataset’s current record is the 2022 edition.

Provider
Environment Agency (England)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Added when the video shows
England and its surroundings
Line in the video
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.
Statement on the current edition of the dataset
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Links data.gov.uk — LIDAR Composite DTM

NZ 8m Digital Elevation Model (2012)

New Zealand’s 8 m elevation model, shown in the video with both licence versions it has been published under. LINZ describes it as suitable for cartographic visualisation only.

Provider
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 3.0 NZ
Added when the video shows
New Zealand
Line in the video
Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand for re-use under CC BY 4.0 / CC BY 3.0 NZ
Full attribution
Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Wording used by the tile builder (joerd, 2017)
Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved)

Links LINZ — attributing elevation data · LINZ Data Service — layer 51768

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Australia derived from LiDAR 5 Metre Grid

Geoscience Australia’s 5 m LiDAR-derived elevation model (coastal and urban areas of SA, VIC and NT). Provided under CC BY 4.0 and subject to the disclaimer of warranties in section 5 of that licence.

Provider
Geoscience Australia
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Added when the video shows
Australia
Line in the video
Based on Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Australia derived from LiDAR 5 Metre Grid by Geoscience Australia © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0
Full attribution
Based on Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Australia derived from LiDAR 5 Metre Grid (https://doi.org/10.26186/89644) by Geoscience Australia which is © Commonwealth of Australia and is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence and is subject to the disclaimer of warranties in section 5 of that licence.
Wording used by the tile builder (joerd, 2017)
© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017.

Links doi:10.26186/89644 · Geoscience Australia — attributing material

INEGI LiDAR elevation data, 5 m

LiDAR-derived 5 m elevation data for parts of Mexico. INEGI is credited as the author. The use of this data in MapRecap does not represent an official position of INEGI. The changes made to the data are listed under "Modifications" below.

Provider
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
Licence
INEGI — Términos de Libre Uso
Added when the video shows
Mexico
Line in the video
Fuente: INEGI

Links inegi.org.mx

ArcticDEM v2.0, 5 m mosaic

High-resolution elevation for the Arctic and sub-Arctic (Alaska and the Aleutians, Kamchatka, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and beyond). DEMs created from DigitalGlobe imagery; the Polar Geospatial Center publishes them under CC BY 4.0.

Provider
Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota · U.S. National Science Foundation
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Added when the video shows
the Arctic and the far north (from about 51°N)
Line in the video
DEMs provided by the Polar Geospatial Center under NSF-OPP awards 1043681, 1559691, 1542736, 1810976, and 2129685
Credit
DEM(s) courtesy of the Polar Geospatial Center.
Wording used by the tile builder (joerd, 2017)
DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736

Links PGC — ArcticDEM, REMA and EarthDEM · PGC — acknowledgement policy

Modifications

None of the elevation data is shown as originally published. Before it reaches your video it has been:

  • resampled and reprojected to the Web Mercator grid, and encoded as Terrarium RGB tiles — by Mapzen (joerd);
  • mosaicked with the other elevation datasets listed above, so neighbouring sources blend into one surface — by Mapzen (joerd);
  • cropped to the area around your route and vertically exaggerated — by MapRecap;
  • shaded (hillshade, contour lines, elevation colouring) and stylised with the look you choose — by MapRecap.

No endorsement, no warranty

None of the data providers listed here endorses MapRecap, its videos or their use. The elevation data is provided "as is", without warranties, and the rendered terrain is a visualisation: it is not accurate enough for navigation, planning or safety decisions.

Other assets in your downloads

Map styles, flags, 3D models and fonts that can end up in a video or an image:

Natural Earth

Country outlines and the country highlights in flyover videos, the map geometry of the results and builder maps, and the offline city search index.

Licence
Public domain

Links naturalearthdata.com

Unicode CLDR (via Intl.DisplayNames)

Country names in Ukrainian, Spanish and French. Names only — no geometry.

Licence
Unicode License

Links unicode.org/license

Wikidata

Names of towns and villages for city-level stops in a flyover video, in English, Ukrainian, Spanish and French. CC0: no attribution is required, and it is listed here for transparency.

Licence
CC0 1.0

Links wikidata.org · CC0 1.0

EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016

The "Satellite" map style. The attribution below is drawn into every frame that uses it.

Licence
CC BY 4.0
Attribution
Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX — s2maps.eu · Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017

Links s2maps.eu · CC BY 4.0

EOX Terrain Light

The "Terrain" map style. The attribution below is drawn into every frame that uses it.

Licence
Free to use, including commercially, with attribution and a link back to EOX::Maps
Attribution
Terrain Light: Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and others · Rendering © EOX — maps.eox.at

Links maps.eox.at

Kenney — Car, Watercraft, Train, Blocky Characters kits

The cars, ship, trains and walking characters in flyover videos. The plane, motorcycle and bicycle are generated by MapRecap itself.

Licence
CC0 1.0

Links kenney.nl

Inter · Archivo Black · JetBrains Mono

The typefaces used in videos and images.

Licence
SIL Open Font License 1.1

Links openfontlicense.org

OSRM · searoute-ts · Eurostat marnet

Road routes are computed with the OSRM routing engine and sea routes with searoute-ts over the Eurostat marnet maritime network (derived from Oak Ridge National Laboratory public-domain shipping lanes and European AIS data). Only the resulting route line is drawn; the network itself is never part of a download.

Licence
searoute-ts: MIT · marnet: EUPL-1.2
Attribution
Eurostat searoute / ORNL

Links project-osrm.org · EUPL-1.2

Questions about these credits? Contact us at contact@maprecap.com