Licences & Creative Commons
Open licences and attributions for third-party icons, data, and software used on Britain in Pictures.
We host these materials on our own servers and credit the original projects below. Where a licence requires attribution, that credit is given on this page and, where practical, on the feature that uses the material.
Map location markers
- Project
- Map Icons Collection
- Author
- Nicolas Mollet
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Used for
- Location type markers on the interactive map.
Some icons in the Map Icons Collection are derived from SJJB Map Icons (public domain). Full licence text is included with the hosted icon files on this site.
Map weather overlay icons
- Project
- Weather Icons
- Author
- Erik Flowers
- Licences
-
- Font: SIL Open Font License 1.1
- CSS: MIT License
- Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)
- Used for
- Weather condition symbols on the logged-in map weather overlay.
Weather data
- Project
- Open-Meteo
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Used for
- Current weather and temperature on the map overlay, plus weather and tide information shown on location pages.
Site & interface icons
- Project
- Bootstrap Icons
- Licence
- MIT License
- Used for
- Navigation, buttons, admin tools, location type badges, and other interface elements across the site.
Map software
- Project
- Leaflet
- Licence
- BSD 2-Clause License
- Used for
- Interactive maps throughout the site.
