Provenance
Where this data comes from
Every place we map is traceable to a named source with a licence and a link. If we cannot say where a place came from, we do not publish it.
The sources
| Source | What we take | Licence | What it requires | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap contributors ↗ | Camp and caravan sites tagged as free, across the European launch countries. | ODbL 1.0 | Attribution wherever the data appears, and share-alike on any derived database we publish. | 4,732 |
| Data Source: Recreation.gov ↗ | United States federal recreation facilities whose fee information indicates no charge. | CC BY 4.0 | Credit the source. No share-alike. | 60 |
| DATAtourisme ↗ | French aires published through the national tourism data platform. | Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) | Credit the producer and the record update date, per record, not just site-wide. | 0 |
| Bureau of Land Management ↗ | Bureau of Land Management recreation site points. | Public domain (US Government work) | None. A US Government work is in the public domain. | 0 |
| Official operator page | Places we have taken directly from an operator or municipality page. | Cited per record | Cited individually on the place page. | 0 |
Our ODbL statement
The OpenStreetMap-derived layer published on this site, including the
GeoJSON files served under /map/, is a derivative database
of OpenStreetMap and is made available under the
Open Database License 1.0.
The underlying data is © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Our written pages are a Produced Work under that licence and are not themselves offered under ODbL.
We keep each source in its own layer and never deduplicate across
layers. That is deliberate. Merging the OpenStreetMap layer with a
differently licensed one would create a single derived database and pull
the other source into ODbL's share-alike, which we have no right to do.
Every feature we publish carries its own source property so
the layers stay separately identifiable.
What the data does not tell you
A place tagged as free in OpenStreetMap is a starting point, not proof that it is officially open to the public. Only a small share of sites carry a fee tag at all, and some tagged free turn out to be private. So a record entering our pipeline is a candidate, and it only becomes a published, written place page once someone has checked that it is genuinely designated.
That is why a place page with no writing on it stays out of our sitemap. The structure can exist before the words do; the words are what make the page worth landing on.
Facilities change without notice. Every place page carries the date we last checked it against its source, and a sign at the entrance beats anything we have published.
What we will not use
We do not scrape the commercial camping apps. Their listings are their proprietary databases, gathered from their own users, and taking them would be both a licence breach and a straightforward theft of other people's work. Everything here comes from open data or from an official page we cite.