Where every fact comes from
Each place, photograph, forecast and piece of advice on these pages comes from a source that lets us use it. Here is every one: its licence, the credit it asks for, what we use it for and how often we fetch it again.
GeoNames
- What we use it for
- Every city and admin area: names, alternate names, coordinates, population, time zone. Country facts (capital, currency, calling code, languages).
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Place names and populations from GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0
- How often
- When a city is added
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Natural Earth (via world-atlas)
- What we use it for
- Country shapes on the globe and the scratch cards.
- Licence
- Public domain
- Credit
- Made with Natural Earth; TopoJSON packaging by world-atlas (ISC)
- How often
- Fixed; changed by hand
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
flag-icons
- What we use it for
- The flag beside each country in the My World list.
- Licence
- MIT
- Credit
- Flags from flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis, MIT
- How often
- Fixed; changed by hand
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Wikidata
- What we use it for
- Linking cities and places to Wikidata items; the city photograph (P18); country plugs, voltage, driving side and emergency numbers; how many wikis cover a city, to rank cities by tourism relevance.
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
- Credit
- Structured data from Wikidata, CC0
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Wikipedia
- What we use it for
- Short place descriptions, attributed on the place where they appear.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Credit
- Text from Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- How often
- When a city is added
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit; the text keeps its licence
Wikimedia Commons
- What we use it for
- Photographs of places and the lead photograph of each city, served from Wikimedia's own thumbnail servers.
- Licence
- Per file: CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA only
- Credit
- Each photograph is credited with its author and licence, as Commons composes it: "Author, licence, via Wikimedia Commons"
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Wikivoyage
- What we use it for
- City guide sections (Understand, See, Do, Eat, Drink, Get around, Stay safe, Respect), quoted, never rewritten. Article counts and lengths (no text) help rank cities by tourism relevance.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Credit
- Guide text from the Wikivoyage article, by Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, linked to the exact revision quoted
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit; the text keeps its licence
Wikimedia pageviews
- What we use it for
- How many people read each city's Wikivoyage guide (English, German, French) over the last twelve months, the main signal for ranking cities by tourism relevance. Counts only; no text.
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
- Credit
- Pageview counts from the Wikimedia Analytics Query Service, CC0
- How often
- When a city is added
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
OpenStreetMap
- What we use it for
- Places: names, categories, coordinates, opening hours.
- Licence
- ODbL 1.0
- Credit
- © OpenStreetMap contributors
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit; the text keeps its licence
Overture Maps Foundation
- What we use it for
- Places, read per city from the public release by the ingest scripts, merged with OpenStreetMap.
- Licence
- CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- Credit
- © Overture Maps Foundation, CDLA Permissive 2.0
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Foursquare Open Source Places
- What we use it for
- An adapter only. It reads a file that has to be downloaded after accepting the dataset's terms, and is skipped while that file is absent.
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0
- Credit
- Foursquare Open Source Places, Apache 2.0
- How often
- Not fetched
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Viator
- What we use it for
- Bookable tours and activities, with the booking link.
- Licence
- Viator Partner API terms
- Credit
- Tours and activities from Viator
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Under the provider's own terms
Open-Meteo
- What we use it for
- An optional forecast provider. Off by default.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 (data); free API for non-commercial use only
- Credit
- Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Free tier is non-commercial only
MET Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
- What we use it for
- Daily forecasts for trips that start within nine days.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Weather forecast from MET Norway, CC BY 4.0
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
NASA POWER
- What we use it for
- Monthly climate normals per city: temperature and precipitation, and the best months to go.
- Licence
- Public domain
- Credit
- These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program
- How often
- Every week
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- What we use it for
- Travel advice status and its opening text, quoted with the date FCDO last updated it, and links to its entry requirements.
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Credit
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
- How often
- Every day
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
U.S. Department of State
- What we use it for
- Travel advisory level (1 to 4) and its opening text, quoted with its date, and a link to the country page.
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. Government work)
- Credit
- Travel advisory from the U.S. Department of State
- How often
- Every day
- Commercial use
- Allowed, with credit
Utenriksdepartementet (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- What we use it for
- A link to the ministry's travel information. It has no API and its wording is not ours to paraphrase, so nothing is copied.
- Licence
- Link only; no content reused
- Credit
- Reiseinformasjon from Utenriksdepartementet
- How often
- Fixed; changed by hand
- Commercial use
- We only link to it
OSRM
- What we use it for
- Walking and driving times between stops.
- Licence
- BSD 2-Clause (software); routes from OpenStreetMap data, ODbL 1.0
- Credit
- Routing by OSRM, map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Under the provider's own terms
Google Places
- What we use it for
- Optional verification of opening hours. Results are not stored beyond what the terms allow.
- Licence
- Google Maps Platform Terms of Service
- Credit
- Google Maps
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Under the provider's own terms
Claude (Anthropic)
- What we use it for
- When the AI layer is on, the wording of a plan. Never a place, price or opening hour.
- Licence
- Anthropic Commercial Terms of Service
- Credit
- Wording written by Claude from data already in our database
- How often
- When a plan asks for it
- Commercial use
- Under the provider's own terms
Hand-written seed data
- What we use it for
- The starter set of destinations and activities the planner falls back to.
- Licence
- Our own
- Credit
- Written by us
- How often
- Fixed; changed by hand
- Commercial use
- Ours