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Data Licenses
Nomtier combines place information from several independent providers. Places include © OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database License. Apple supplies the base map.
Data sources
Overture Maps Places
Venue names, coordinates, categories, addresses, contacts, brands, status, and source records.
Source-specific CDLA Permissive 2.0, Apache 2.0, and CC0 1.0 termsOpenStreetMap
Independent food and drink places and source-native place facts.
Open Database License 1.0Overture Maps Divisions
Administrative and locality boundaries used to complete and rank place addresses.
Open Database License 1.0 and source-specific noticesFoursquare OS Places
Some place records distributed through Overture Maps Places.
Apache License 2.0 and Foursquare NOTICEWho's On First
Legacy neighborhood and locality records retained by existing datasets.
Record-level source licensesGeoNames
City autocomplete names, regions, countries, and population.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Apple Maps
Base-map tiles and rendering. Apple is not a Nomtier place-data provider.
Apple Maps terms and displayed legal noticesOpenStreetMap notice
Places include © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License 1.0.
Overture and Foursquare notices
Overture Maps Places includes records under CDLA Permissive 2.0, Apache 2.0, and CC0 1.0. Overture Maps Divisions is available under ODbL and includes OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, Esri Community Maps, and Land Information New Zealand source notices.
Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Foursquare OS Places dataset (the "Data") is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use, modify, or distribute the Data except in compliance with the License. As set forth more fully in the License, if you use, modify, or distribute the Data, you must provide recipients with a copy of the License, include prominent notices to the extent you have changed the Data, and preserve attribution to Foursquare, including the full content of its NOTICE. You may obtain a copy of the License at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Data is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
Foursquare-derived provider records may be filtered, normalized, classified, and deduplicated before use. The release-specific source-notice archive preserves Nomtier's change date and the upstream notice captured for that provider release.
Review the Foursquare NOTICE, Apache License 2.0, and Overture attribution inventory.
Open method
Nomtier publishes a reproducible transformation method for its OpenStreetMap-derived provider dataset. Private application and community overlays are separate from that method.
Nomtier provider dataset methodQuestions
Questions about source attribution or licensing can be sent to hello@nomtier.com.