About the data

Sources and credits

Each source is listed with the licence we use it under and the credit it asks for. On the globe, the ⓘ button in the corner shows short credits for the layers in view.

• World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)

  Park and conservancy borders, designations and governance classes behind the stripes. The borders are shown on the map only; they are not available for download.

  Licence: Protected Planet terms of use. Non-commercial use with this citation; commercial use needs permission from UNEP-WCMC. The data may be shown on a map but not offered for download.

  Credit: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [On-line], [October 2026], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

  The conservation status on species pages uses Red List categories, entered by hand. No IUCN data files are used: the range maps come from GBIF sightings.

  Licence: IUCN Red List terms of use. Only the category name of each species is shown, with this credit. No IUCN data files or other Red List data are imported.

  Credit: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, iucnredlist.org

• GBIF

  Species names and keys (the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy), and sightings from the GBIF occurrence search, grouped into hexagons by month and drawn as each species’ range.

  Licence: GBIF terms of use. Only sightings their publishers share under CC0 1.0 or CC BY 4.0 are used: both allow any use, including commercial, with credit. Sightings under CC BY-NC 4.0 are left out. The Backbone Taxonomy is CC BY 4.0.

  Credit: GBIF.org; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, doi:10.15468/39omei

  Cite the sightings as: GBIF.org (3 November 2026) Filtered export of GBIF occurrence data https://doi.org/10.15468/dd.zccret

• OpenStreetMap

  The base map’s roads, rivers, land cover and labels, and some place locations.

  Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Free to use, including commercially, with credit. A database made from it must be shared under the same licence.

  Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors

• OpenMapTiles and OpenFreeMap

  The base map tiles, fonts and icons (served by OpenFreeMap), and the Liberty style our map styles start from.

  Licence: CC BY 4.0 (OpenMapTiles design), BSD 3-Clause (code). Free to use, including commercially, with credit. OpenFreeMap is a free public service under its own terms of use.

  Credit: © OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap

• RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017

  The biome colours on the globe: the ecoregions grouped into 14 biomes.

  Licence: CC BY 4.0. Free to use, including commercially, with credit.

  Credit: Dinerstein et al. (2017), An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience 67(6); RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017

• Terrain tiles (Mapzen Terrarium on AWS Open Data)

  The hill shading, and the 3D relief when the map is tilted.

  Licence: Public domain, CC BY, Open Government Licences and others, per source. Free to use, including commercially, with credit. Each elevation source has its own credit line.

  Credit: Mapzen, and these sources:

  • ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736
  • Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017
  • Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich
  • Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
  • Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers
  • Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016
  • New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved)
  • Norway terrain data © Kartverket
  • United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved
  • United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

• Natural Earth

  Country and region outlines, and the shaded relief at world scale.

  Licence: Public domain. Free for any use. No credit is needed; we give one anyway.

  Credit: Made with Natural Earth

• OurAirports

  The nearest airport with scheduled flights on each listing page.

  Licence: Public domain. Free for any use. No credit is needed; we give one anyway.

  Credit: Airports from OurAirports, ourairports.com

• GeoNames

  Place names and regions.

  Licence: CC BY 4.0. Free to use, including commercially, with credit.

  Credit: GeoNames, geonames.org

• MET Norway Locationforecast

  The current weather and the next few hours on listing and park pages. We show the temperature in °C or °F and the wind in km/h or mph, and turn the weather symbols into words.

  Licence: NLOD 2.0 and CC BY 4.0. Free to use, including commercially, with credit. The service asks for light, cached use and no Yr branding.

  Credit: Weather: MET Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute)

• Time zones

  The local time zone of each listing and park, so sunrise, sunset and golden hour show in local time: the tz database, and timezone-boundary-builder through tz-lookup.

  Licence: Public domain (tz database), ODbL 1.0 (boundaries). Free to use, including commercially, with credit for the boundaries.

  Credit: tz database (IANA); timezone-boundary-builder, © OpenStreetMap contributors

• NASA Blue Marble: Clouds

  The clouds over the globe when it is zoomed out: NASA’s 2002 Blue Marble cloud image (Visible Earth #57747), drawn as a thin layer that fades away as you zoom in.

  Licence: Public domain (US government work). Free for any use, including commercial, with NASA credited. NASA does not endorse this site, and the NASA logo is not used.

  Credit: Clouds: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Blue Marble (2002), image by Reto Stöckli; MODIS data.

Photos

We show a photo only when we hold a licence for it. Today that means photos reused from Wikimedia Commons under their authors’ licences, mostly Creative Commons. Each one carries its author, licence and a link to its file page wherever it appears, and a photo is not shown until that credit is known. Photos from operators’ own websites are not shown. The map pins are too small for text, so every credit is also listed on the photo credits page.

Reading the map

Inside or outside: every hide and lodge is tested against the park borders on import and carries a badge such as “Inside Oulanka National Park” or “Outside, 2 km from Oulanka National Park”.

Freshness

Listings and map data are loaded by hand when we update them, not on a fixed schedule. Listings show whether the owner has claimed them and when they were last checked. Operators charge in their own currency. The site shows prices in the currency you pick in the menu, converted at the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates and marked ≈, with the operator’s price beside it.

For developers and assistants

Listings, places and shooting windows are available as JSON: see the OpenAPI document and llms.txt. Protected-area borders are shown on the map only.