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
-
- Font: SIL Open Font License 1.1
- CSS: MIT License
- Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)
- 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.
Aircraft data
- Project
- The OpenSky Network
- Terms
- OpenSky Network terms of use. API data is provided for non-profit research and education; citation is required when publishing or displaying this data.
- Citation
- Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic and Matthias Wilhelm. “Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research”. Proceedings of IPSN, pages 83–94, April 2014.
- Used for
- Optional admin aircraft overlay on the photo locations map (UK and English Channel airspace only). For interest and planning only — not for operational or safety-critical use. Can be disabled in Admin → Site Settings.
Aircraft positions and metadata are retrieved via the OpenSky REST API. Optional OpenSky API client credentials may be configured in Admin → Site Settings to improve rate limits. Map aircraft silhouettes are adapted from the tar1090 ADS-B map project (GPL-2.0). Aircraft type and operator details may also be retrieved from hexdb.io (ICAO hex lookup) and, when configured, the official Flightradar24 API. Flightradar24’s public website cannot be scraped automatically.
UK drone flight restrictions
- Source
- NATS UK digital datasets (UAS flight restriction zones).
- Used for
- Optional logged-in drone FRZ overlay on the map, and major UK airport marker positions when the admin aircraft layer is enabled. Zone polygons and site names are derived from the published NATS dataset; this site does not republish the full dataset.
Aurora alerts
- Project
- AuroraWatch UK
- Terms
- AuroraWatch UK API terms. Non-commercial use only; alert thresholds and colours must not be altered.
- Used for
- Optional logged-in aurora alert overlay on the map, and magnetometer activity on location pages. Planetary K-index values are from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
Cloud-cover forecast
- Source
- Clear Outside (forecast data powered by Meteosource).
- Used for
- Optional admin cloud-cover heatmap on the map and forecast panel in Admin. Clear Outside does not publish a public API; this site reads their public forecast pages for configured coordinates.
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.
IP geolocation
- Project
- IP2Location.io
- Used for
- Optional admin IP address lookups on Visitor Logs and related admin tools. Free plans require visible attribution where the service is used.
Map software
- Project
- Leaflet
- Licence
- BSD 2-Clause License
- Used for
- Interactive maps throughout the site.
