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Place data notices

Some of the cafes, bike shops and viewpoints on Neverchill came from an open dataset rather than from a rider. This page names those sources and carries the licence notices they ask for.

Last updated 2026-08-13

This is the page the licences point at. Two of the open licences behind our place data ask for something to be published - one wants its own text made available, the other wants a supplier's notice reproduced where third-party notices normally appear. Both are below, word for word, along with a plain account of which data they apply to.

1. What this page covers

In short: Places on Neverchill come from two places - riders, and one open dataset. This page is about the dataset.

A place page on Neverchill is built from whichever of these applies:

  • Riders. Somebody stopped somewhere, typed a name, and checked in. Most of what you read on a place page - the description, the photos, how many riders have been - is ours and theirs, not a supplier's, and no third-party licence reaches it.
  • An open place dataset. When a rider picks a suggested name in the check-in sheet rather than typing one, the name, coordinate, address, category and contact details can come from Open Places API, which serves the Overture Maps Foundation's Places dataset. Those are the records this page is about.

We keep a record of which of the two a place came from, and the rules below are applied per place rather than across the whole site.

2. Where the data comes from

Open Places API is hosted access to Overture's Places theme. We request only its shared base layer - the Overture data itself - and enable no community or account-owned overlays on top of it. Overture builds that theme by conflating nine named sources under three licences. As published by Overture in July 2026:

SourceLicenceRecords
MetaCDLA Permissive 2.060,591,049
MicrosoftCDLA Permissive 2.06,305,853
FoursquareApache 2.04,748,001
AllThePlacesCC0 1.01,418,830
BrightQueryCDLA Permissive 2.0831,651
PinMeToCDLA Permissive 2.0159,426
DACCDLA Permissive 2.0149,700
KrickCDLA Permissive 2.015,396
RenderSEOCDLA Permissive 2.03,655

The API does not tell us which source any individual record came from. There is no per-record provenance in the response, so we cannot say that this cafe is Meta's and that bike shop is Foursquare's. Rather than guess, we treat every provider-derived place as though it were subject to the strictest licence in the set. That is why the Foursquare notice below is reproduced for all of them, and why there is one notice page instead of a credit line under each venue.

3. Overture Maps Foundation

Place data on Neverchill is sourced from the Overture Maps Foundation's Places theme, overturemaps.org, accessed through Open Places API.

Overture asks for no text credit and no logo - its suggested citation is explicitly optional. We give the credit anyway, because a reader who wants to check a venue's provenance should be able to follow it back without reading a licence first.

There is no OpenStreetMap data in this dataset. That matters enough to say plainly, because it is the assumption most people bring to open map data. Overture licenses several of its other themes under the Open Database License, but not this one. Its Places guide states it directly:

The theme is published under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. It contains no OpenStreetMap data and carries none of the share-alike obligations of the Open Database License (ODbL).

So you will not find an "© OpenStreetMap contributors" line on this page. Crediting a source we do not use would be as wrong as omitting one we do.

Overture publishes its own per-source breakdown at docs.overturemaps.org/attribution, which is where the table above comes from.

4. Foursquare, and Apache 2.0

Roughly six percent of Overture Places is Foursquare's open-source Places dataset, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Section 4(d) of that licence requires a readable copy of the supplier's NOTICE to be reproduced "within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear". This page is where they normally appear. The notice follows in full, unaltered.

Foursquare OS Places Notice © 2026 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. – if applicable, include prominent notices to the extent you've changed the Data. – preserve attribution to Foursquare, including preserving the full content of this NOTICE.txt file. To ensure appropriate attribution to Foursquare, we recommend the following: – if using/distributing the Data in flat file form as-is or after making changes/modifications: include this NOTICE.txt file, which may be modified to include an additional notice of your changes/modifications, if any. – if using/distributing the Data in API form as-is or after making changes/modifications: include a copy of the content from this NOTICE.txt file prominently in your developer documentation for such API, which may be modified to include an additional notice of your changes/modifications, if any. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Data distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. We also encourage you to join our Placemaker community where you can contribute and provide suggestions to improve the accuracy of the Data for future releases for yourself and others.

The same licence asks that recipients be given a copy of the licence itself. It is at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0, and reproduced here so that the obligation does not rest on somebody else's link staying up.

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5. CDLA Permissive 2.0

Most of Overture Places - everything contributed by Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo, BrightQuery, DAC, Krick and RenderSEO - is licensed under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive, Version 2.0. That licence asks for no attribution at all. Its single condition, at section 2.1, is that a recipient sharing the data "makes available the text of this agreement with the shared Data". Here is that text, in full.

Community Data License Agreement - Permissive - Version 2.0 This is the Community Data License Agreement - Permissive, Version 2.0 (the "agreement"). Data Provider(s) and Data Recipient(s) agree as follows: 1. Provision of the Data 1.1. A Data Recipient may use, modify, and share the Data made available by Data Provider(s) under this agreement if that Data Recipient follows the terms of this agreement. 1.2. This agreement does not impose any restriction on a Data Recipient's use, modification, or sharing of any portions of the Data that are in the public domain or that may be used, modified, or shared under any other legal exception or limitation. 2. Conditions for Sharing Data 2.1. A Data Recipient may share Data, with or without modifications, so long as the Data Recipient makes available the text of this agreement with the shared Data. 3. No Restrictions on Results 3.1. This agreement does not impose any restriction or obligations with respect to the use, modification, or sharing of Results. 4. No Warranty; Limitation of Liability 4.1. All Data Recipients receive the Data subject to the following terms: THE DATA IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO DATA PROVIDER SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS), HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE DATA OR RESULTS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 5. Definitions 5.1. "Data" means the material received by a Data Recipient under this agreement. 5.2. "Data Provider" means any person who is the source of Data provided under this agreement and in reliance on a Data Recipient's agreement to its terms. 5.3. "Data Recipient" means any person who receives Data directly or indirectly from a Data Provider and agrees to the terms of this agreement. 5.4. "Results" means any outcome obtained by computational analysis of Data, including for example machine learning models and models' insights.

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6. AllThePlaces, and CC0

A small share of the dataset comes from AllThePlaces under the CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication, which imposes no conditions and requires no notice. It is named here for completeness rather than obligation.

7. What we changed

Apache 2.0 asks that changes to the data be noted, so:

  • Overture states that Foursquare's data "was transformed to the Overture schema", most recently on 18 March 2026. That happened upstream of us.
  • We store a subset of the fields a record carries - a name, a coordinate, an address, a category and contact details - and drop the rest. We do not alter the values we keep.
  • We add our own material around them: descriptions, photos, opening hours, amenities, check-in counts and rider reviews. None of that comes from the dataset, and none of the licences above apply to it.
  • We do not redistribute the dataset. A place page shows one venue at a time; there is no bulk export and no API serving these records onward.

8. What this page is not

It is not about rider-created places. Where the dataset has no coverage - which is most of the world, in practice - a rider types the name themselves and the place exists because they made it. Those records carry no third-party licence.

It is not our Mapbox credit. Mapbox supplies our maps, routing and geocoding, and in the check-in sheet it can suggest nearby venue names for a rider to copy a spelling from. Nothing from those suggestions is stored - not the name, not the coordinate, not the identifier - and Mapbox is credited on screen wherever its results appear.

It is not a Foursquare Places API notice. The commercial Foursquare Places API is not a source for this feature and never has been. The Foursquare notice in section 4 is for the separate, open-source Foursquare Places dataset that Overture includes.

For everything else - what we collect about you, and the agreement you are under - see the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.

9. Corrections and contact

If a place is wrong, closed, duplicated or should not be listed at all, tell us and we will fix or remove it. Signed-in riders can correct a place directly - opening hours, notes and menu items are all editable from the place page, and a business can claim its own listing. For anything else, email us at hello@neverchill.com.

If you are a data provider and believe an attribution here is incomplete or incorrect, we would rather hear it than not: hello@neverchill.com. This page is versioned in our repository, so a change to it is a change anyone can see.