Licences & Creative Commons

Open licences and attributions for third-party icons, data, and software used on Britain in Pictures.

We host these materials on our own servers and credit the original projects below. Where a licence requires attribution, that credit is given on this page and, where practical, on the feature that uses the material.

Map location markers

Project
Map Icons Collection
Author
Nicolas Mollet
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Used for
Location type markers on the interactive map.

Some icons in the Map Icons Collection are derived from SJJB Map Icons (public domain). Full licence text is included with the hosted icon files on this site.

Map weather overlay icons

Project
Weather Icons
Author
Erik Flowers
Licences
Used for
Weather condition symbols on the logged-in map weather overlay.

Weather data

Project
Open-Meteo
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Used for
Current weather and temperature on the map overlay, plus weather and tide information shown on location pages.

Lightning data

Project
Blitzortung.org
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Used for
Optional logged-in lightning overlay test on the map. For interest only — not for safety or equipment protection.

Scenic driving routes

North Coast 500
Route geometry derived from OpenStreetMap contributors via the Overpass API. OpenStreetMap licence.
Northumberland 250
Route geometry from the public MyRoute-app RouteXpert library (routes 5438901 and 5438902, Nick Carthew).
Wales Coast 400
Based on the Wales Coast Path dataset from DataMapWales / Natural Resources Wales.
Wild Atlantic Way
data.gov.ie (CC BY 4.0).

Site & interface icons

Project
Bootstrap Icons
Licence
MIT License
Used for
Navigation, buttons, admin tools, location type badges, and other interface elements across the site.

Map software

Project
Leaflet
Licence
BSD 2-Clause License
Used for
Interactive maps throughout the site.