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Sources and licences
Every layer on this map comes from open data that anyone may reuse, including commercially, with credit. Aureality is an independent company. It is not an institution of the European Union, and showing EU data here does not mean the EU endorses this site. The privacy notice for Aureality lives on aureality.info/privacy.
Base map
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| Satellite imagery | EOxCloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (cloudless.eox.at), CC BY 4.0. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017. |
| Terrain | Mapterhorn terrain tiles, built from open elevation data including Copernicus DEM © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. |
| Buildings, roads and place names | © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL). Vector tiles © OpenMapTiles, served by OpenFreeMap. |
| Place search | Photon by komoot, searching OpenStreetMap data (ODbL). |
| Country borders and regions | Natural Earth, public domain. Regions are linked to the EU’s NUTS region codes through Wikidata (CC0). Borders are simplified and do not take a position on any disputed boundary. |
| Capital cities | Natural Earth, public domain. |
National aerial photos
Shown from zoom 8, only inside the country or region that publishes them.
| Area | Publisher and licence |
|---|
| France | IGN, Géoplateforme, Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 (terms). |
| Spain | PNOA, © Instituto Geográfico Nacional, CC BY 4.0 (scne.es). |
| Poland | Geoportal.gov.pl, Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGiK), free reuse under Polish open geodata law. |
| Austria | basemap.at, CC BY 4.0. |
| Bavaria, Germany | Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung, OpenData, CC BY 4.0. |
| North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | Geobasis NRW, Data licence Germany Zero 2.0 (dl-de/zero-2.0). |
| Switzerland | © swisstopo, free geodata under the Swiss open government data terms. |
| Belgium | © NGI / IGN Belgium, open data. |
| Netherlands | PDOK / Beeldmateriaal Nederland, CC BY 4.0. |
| Czechia | Detailed Czech maps are on aureality.cz. |
Politics
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| Membership of the EU, euro area, Schengen, NATO, Council of Europe, EFTA and EU candidates | Public member lists of each organisation, as of mid 2026. Lists change; check the organisation’s own site for the latest. |
| European Parliament election 2024: seats, groups and turnout | © European Union, 2024 – Source: European Parliament (results.elections.europa.eu). Reuse is allowed with this credit. |
| Current Members of the European Parliament | © European Union – Source: European Parliament open data portal. Read through a small aureality.eu proxy that keeps the list for a day. |
| Governments, heads of state, elections | Wikidata, public domain (CC0). |
Economy and society
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| Regional GDP, unemployment, population density, life expectancy, university degrees and risk of poverty | Eurostat, © European Union, CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Read live from the Eurostat API, with a stored copy if the API is busy. |
| Growth and inflation by country | World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. |
Environment and nature
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| Land cover | CORINE Land Cover 2018, © European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, European Environment Agency (EEA). Free and open under the Copernicus data policy. |
| Natura 2000 protected areas | European Environment Agency, CC BY 4.0. |
| Sea depth | EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium, CC BY 4.0. |
| Fires and burnt areas | European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), Copernicus Emergency Management Service, © European Union. |
| Emergency mapping | Copernicus Emergency Management Service, rapid mapping, © European Union. Free and open under the Copernicus data policy. Read through a small aureality.eu proxy. |
| Earthquakes | U.S. Geological Survey live feed, public domain. |
News
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| News by place | The GDELT Project, read through a small aureality.eu proxy that keeps each feed for 30 minutes. Headlines link to the original outlets. |
| Events in Europe | Wikipedia “Current events” portal, CC BY-SA 4.0. Placed using the coordinates of the linked Wikipedia articles. |
| EU press releases | European Commission press corner, © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Titles and links only; the release is not changed. |
| Crises and disasters | ReliefWeb, a service of UN OCHA. Titles and links only; each report belongs to the organisation that published it. |
| Social posts | Public posts from the “Verified News” feed on Bluesky and from #news, #worldnews and #breakingnews on mastodon.social. Shown as short text with the author and a link; posts marked sensitive or labelled by moderators are left out. Each post belongs to its author. |
| Picked posts from X | Posts chosen by Aureality and shown through X’s own embed. We store only the link. Nothing loads from X, and X sets no cookies, until you press “Show post from X”; then X’s privacy policy applies. |
History and culture
| Item | Source and licence |
|---|
| World Heritage sites | Places on the UNESCO World Heritage list, taken from Wikidata (CC0), with links to each UNESCO list entry. |
| Photos in the details pane | Wikimedia Commons. Each photo links to its file page, which names the author and licence. |
| Monuments in 3D | Open-licence scans on Sketchfab (CC0 or CC BY 4.0). Each model’s author, licence and source are shown with it. Shown with Sketchfab’s viewer; Aureality does not host the files. |
| On this day, and place summaries | Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, with a link to each article. |
| Founding dates | Wikidata, CC0. |
Software and fonts
| Item | Licence |
|---|
| Map rendering | MapLibre GL JS, BSD-3-Clause. |
| Fonts | Outfit and IBM Plex Mono, SIL Open Font License, via Google Fonts. |
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