Terralocate

Terms of Use

Last updated: 25 May 2026

1. Acceptance of these terms

Terralocate (the “Service”) is an editorial atlas of places assembled from publicly available data and imagery. By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Nature of the content

Terralocate compiles, restructures, and presents information derived from many independent public sources (listed in section 5). The Service is provided for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not a source of official statistics, legal advice, real-estate guidance, navigational data, emergency information, medical information, or any other professional advice. Numbers shown for population, demographics, weather, hazard risk, air quality, and similar metrics are derived from third-party datasets that may be incomplete, delayed, estimated, or inaccurate.

3. No warranty

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

4. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Terralocate, its operators, contributors, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities, arising out of or in connection with your use of or inability to use the Service or any content on it.

5. Data sources and attribution

The Service is built on open data from many public and openly licensed sources. Each underlying dataset remains the property of its original publisher and is used under its own license. Major sources include:

  • Wikipedia & Wikidata — text excerpts and structured facts, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution to the Wikimedia contributors. Reuse of derived text on the Service inherits the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
  • Wikimedia Commons — photographs and media, each used under the license shown on its source page (commonly CC BY-SA, CC BY, CC0, or public domain). The original author and license are credited where the image is displayed; click an image to view its source page on Commons.
  • OpenStreetMap — points of interest, walkability, and geographic context, © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  • US Census Bureau (ACS, Decennial, TIGER/Line, PEP) — public domain works of the U.S. federal government.
  • NOAA & National Weather Service — climate normals, forecasts, alerts — public domain.
  • USGS — earthquakes, stream gauges, elevation — public domain.
  • EPA — Walkability Index, AirNow, pollution facilities — public domain.
  • FEMA — National Risk Index — public domain.
  • CDC PLACES — health indicators — public domain.
  • NCES — schools — public domain.
  • GBIF & iNaturalist — species occurrences. GBIF records are typically published under CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-NC; iNaturalist photos are used under the license set by each contributor.
  • Open-Meteo — weather and air quality data, used under CC BY 4.0.
  • OpenSensorHub / OpenAQ / SensorCommunity — community air-quality sensor data, used under the licenses of each network.
  • Open Library / Internet Archive — book metadata, used under CC0 / public-domain terms.
  • National statistical offices — ONS (UK), NRS (Scotland), NISRA, ABS (Australia), StatCan (Canada), Destatis (Germany), INSEE (France), IBGE (Brazil), Statistics Bureau of Japan — used under each office’s open-data terms (typically OGL, Open Licence, public domain, or equivalent).

If you believe a specific item is improperly attributed or has been included in error, please contact us and we will correct, re-attribute, or remove it promptly.

6. Your rights to use the content

You may view, share, and link to Terralocate pages for personal, educational, and journalistic use. When you reuse any underlying content, you must comply with the license of the original source. In particular:

  • Text and excerpts derived from Wikipedia remain under CC BY-SA 4.0; downstream reuse must attribute Wikipedia and remain share-alike.
  • Images credit and license the original creator as shown on Wikimedia Commons or iNaturalist.
  • OpenStreetMap-derived data remains under the ODbL; substantial reuse requires attribution to “© OpenStreetMap contributors” and may trigger share-alike obligations.
  • Bulk scraping, large-scale automated downloads, or republishing the Service’s database as a substitute service is not permitted.

The Terralocate name, logo, page layouts, editorial selection, and original commentary are © the operator of Terralocate and may not be reused without permission.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law or the rights of others.
  • Scrape, crawl, or harvest content at a rate or volume that disrupts the Service or its upstream data providers.
  • Attempt to reverse engineer, probe, or interfere with the Service’s security or infrastructure.
  • Use the Service to make decisions with material legal, financial, medical, safety, or emergency consequences.
  • Misrepresent data on Terralocate as official statistics or as endorsed by any government or third-party data provider.

8. Copyright and takedown

We respect copyright. If you are the rights holder of material that appears on Terralocate and you believe it has been used outside the terms of its license, please contact us with: (a) identification of the work, (b) the URL on Terralocate where it appears, (c) your contact information, and (d) a statement of the basis of your claim. We will review and act on valid notices promptly, typically by re-attributing or removing the material.

9. Third-party links

Pages on Terralocate frequently link to third-party sources (Wikipedia, government statistical offices, OpenStreetMap, and others). We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or practices.

10. Changes to the Service and these Terms

We may add, change, or remove features, datasets, and pages at any time without notice. We may also update these Terms; the “last updated” date at the top of the page will reflect the most recent revision. Continued use of the Service after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

11. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the operator of Terralocate resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising from or related to the Service or these Terms shall be brought exclusively in the courts of that jurisdiction.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms, attribution, or takedown requests can be sent through our contact form.