Geographic data credits

Atlas turns geographic records into artwork. Boundaries and terrain are simplified, sampled, interpolated and smoothed. These designs are not navigation or survey products. Data providers do not endorse Atlas.

Places and boundaries

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); place metadata from Wikidata (CC0).

Mountain terrain

New terrain artwork uses Mapzen Terrain Tiles, accessed from AWS Open Data. Coverage combines regional sources; accuracy and resolution vary. Earlier artwork may use Open-Meteo / Copernicus elevation data. The following credits apply where the corresponding regional datasets are used. See the source attribution and licence details and dataset documentation.

• 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: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce.
• 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 and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. U.S. government material is not subject to copyright protection within the United States.