Map data
Map data and attribution
Every map Navzeno draws, every place it finds and every route it plans comes from OpenStreetMap — made by hundreds of thousands of people, and used here under the Open Database Licence.
What the data is
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world built and maintained by volunteers, published as open data. Everything Navzeno knows about the world comes from it: the roads and their names, the lakes and forests, the campgrounds, the fuel stations and the trailheads, the one-way streets and the turn restrictions the router obeys.
A Navzeno region file — the single file you download for a province — is a derivative database of OpenStreetMap. We take a regional extract of the OSM data, drop what a navigator does not need, and rewrite what is left into a format built for reading offline: a geometry section for drawing, a routing graph, a search index and a set of labels. The facts in it are OpenStreetMap's facts. The arrangement is ours.
Because of that, ODbL 1.0 applies to those files and to anything derived from them, and the attribution above travels with the data.
What it means for you
The map may be wrong. OpenStreetMap is very good in some places and thin in others, and no part of it is guaranteed. A road may be missing, a seasonal closure unrecorded, a gate unmarked, a campground listed at the wrong end of a lake, a turn restriction absent. Nothing in the data is verified by us or by anyone else. Read the terms for what that means for navigating by it — the short version is that signs, closures and your own eyes outrank the app.
You can fix it. This is the part people do not expect: the map is editable, by you, for everyone. If you find a missing road or a campground in the wrong spot, correct it at openstreetmap.org/fixthemap — you do not need to be a mapper to fix an obvious error, and an account takes a minute. Corrections reach Navzeno the next time we rebuild that region, which is also why we rebuild them.
The data stays open. Buying an app does not put a fence around OpenStreetMap. The same data is free to download from OSM directly, and other apps use it too.
What it means for us
We will charge for the app, for turning a raw OSM extract into a region file that a phone can search and route across offline, and for hosting and keeping those files current. We do not charge for the data. That distinction is the whole of the arrangement: the processing and the convenience are ours to sell; the map is everyone's.
The obligations we hold ourselves to: the OpenStreetMap credit is visible on the map in every version of the app and on this site; the licence is named wherever the data is; and we do not present the map as our own work or as authoritative.
Where the data comes from
- OpenStreetMap — the source of all map, search and routing data. Copyright and licence, under ODbL 1.0.
- Geofabrik — the regional extracts of OpenStreetMap we build each region file from.
- openstreetmap-carto — the colour scheme the app draws with is adapted from the style openstreetmap.org itself serves, which is released under CC0. It is why a Navzeno map looks like the map you already know.
This site
navzeno.com is a static site with no third-party requests, no cookies and no analytics — see the privacy policy. Two components are other people's work:
- Plus Jakarta Sans, by Tokotype — the typeface, served from this domain under the SIL Open Font Licence.
- Astro — the static site generator that builds these pages, under the MIT licence.
Questions and corrections
If something here is wrong, or you need the attribution in a different form for a partnership or a publication, email support@navzeno.com. To correct the map itself, go to OpenStreetMap — that fixes it for every app that uses the data, not just this one.