Data sources, licences and operational limits
OpenStreetMap
Base map tiles and geographic data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Public Nominatim is configured only for a low-traffic, non-bulk launch: submitted searches are cached, globally throttled to no more than one request per second and never used for keystroke autocomplete. Switch to a contracted provider or self-hosted Nominatim before significant commercial traffic.
Overpass API
Nearby points of interest come from OpenStreetMap through a configurable Overpass endpoint. Queries are user-triggered, radius-bounded, category-limited, response-limited and cached. Public instances have no service-level guarantee.
Open-Meteo and Copernicus DEM
Weather and elevation use Open-Meteo. Elevation is based on Copernicus DEM GLO-90. Attribution to Open-Meteo and the Copernicus programme is required. Open-Meteo’s free endpoint is non-commercial; websites with advertising or subscriptions must configure a paid commercial endpoint and key.
Wikimedia
Short background summaries are requested only when OpenStreetMap provides an explicit Wikipedia tag. Text is shortened, linked to its article and attributed; no page is scraped. Wikimedia content may use CC BY-SA and other licences shown on the source page.
Provider failure
Cached stale data may be shown briefly when a provider is unavailable. Every live-data section can fail independently so that the rest of a place report remains usable.
BeniSnous Place Score
No score is published in the MVP. A future score will expose inputs, coverage, date and formula; unavailable dimensions will be omitted instead of estimated.