Legal notice
Publisher
gpxpath.com is published by Charles Neveu, sole proprietor (SIREN 923 555 346), rue de Chabrol, 75010 Paris, France. Contact: contact@gpxpath.com.
Publication director
Charles Neveu.
Host
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Maps and data
- Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License (ODbL).
- Topographic map style: OpenTopoMap, under CC-BY-SA. Credit shown on every map: “© OpenStreetMap contributors, SRTM, map style OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA)”.
- Relief: SRTM elevation data (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, NASA), used by OpenTopoMap for hill shading and contour lines.
- “OpenStreetMap” base map in the editor: tiles from the OpenStreetMap Foundation (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
- IGN map and aerial photos, contour lines, hillshade, slopes and land registry: © IGN, Géoplateforme, under the Etalab 2.0 Open Licence.
- Route calculation in the editor: BRouter, an open source routing engine, on OpenStreetMap data; it also provides the elevation of routed sections (SRTM data).
- Elevation in France for straight lines and files imported without elevation: the IGN Géoplateforme elevation service (RGE ALTI model), under the Etalab 2.0 Open Licence.
- Elevation outside France: Terrain Tiles, see the list of sources below.
- Place search on the home page and in the editor: Photon, komoot’s open source geocoder, which queries OpenStreetMap data.
Elevation outside France: Terrain Tiles
Outside France, the editor takes elevation from the open dataset Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, a Linux Foundation project, hosted by the AWS Open Data programme). It combines the following elevation models, credited as the dataset requires:
- ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736;
- Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017;
- Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs, Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich;
- Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence, Canada;
- Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers;
- Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;
- Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016;
- New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved);
- Norway terrain data © Kartverket;
- United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved;
- United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Libraries and typeface
- Interactive maps: Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause licence) for the file tools, MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause licence) for the editor.
- Cookie consent banner: Osano cookieconsent (MIT licence), served from gpxpath.com.
- Reading GPX, KML and TCX files: @tmcw/togeojson (BSD-2-Clause licence). Unzipping KMZ files: fflate (MIT licence). The FIT file reader is written for this site.
- Typeface: Figtree, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from gpxpath.com.
Intellectual property
The texts, illustrations, logo and the site’s own code belong to the publisher. Copying them requires written permission. Files you open in the site’s tools remain yours: they are read in your browser and are neither uploaded nor kept.
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