Sources, licenses, and credits
Mike’s photos, observations, ratings, and travel notes are the primary record. Outside data fills in context where it helps someone plan or understand a place.
How attribution works
City and country pages keep their research links in one collapsed, numbered reference list at the bottom. Changing or consequential details such as entry rules, water guidance, prices, hours, and transit restrictions get the clearest source. Personal observations and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted sentence by sentence.
Pin pages retain canonical direct links when they help with a visit, such as an official website, current hours, or ticket pricing. Provider credits explain services used across the site; they do not replace field-level sources or the attribution required for licensed images and maps.
Personal work
Photographs, reviews, ratings, lists, firsthand observations, and practical judgments are Mike Lee’s unless a page says otherwise. Personal gallery photographs are not licensed for redistribution. Generated cover art is identified as illustration, not documentary photography.
Outside datasets still in use
Supabase stores Mike’s own atlas records. The outside datasets below supply specific layers around that record.
Live planning
Forecasts, climate, air quality, holidays, transit, and exchange rates.
Open-Meteo, NASA POWER, OpenAQ, Nager.Date, TransitLand, Exchange-rate feed.
Maps and geography
Interactive maps, airports, boundaries, elevations, and time zones.
OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap, OurAirports, Natural Earth, Open-Elevation, IANA Time Zone Database.
Background and practicalities
Place context, heritage records, entry guidance, water, and electricity.
Wikipedia, Wikidata, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Travel.State.gov, CDC Yellow Book, WHO drinking-water guidance, World Standards.
Images and symbols
Licensed civic symbols and the small number of explicitly retained public images.
Wikimedia Commons, FlagCDN / flag-icons, circle-flags.
Personal imports and list checks
Mike’s saved exports, outbound map links, and list-designation cross-checks.
Google Takeout, Google Maps, Atlas Obscura, Michelin Guide.
Provider registry
Wikipedia
Article summaries and contextual excerpts.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Terms / attribution guidance.
Wikimedia Commons
Licensed source images and civic symbols when they are explicitly retained.
Terms / attribution guidance. Each file carries its own author and license; use the image-level credit.
Wikidata
Structured geographic facts and linked identifiers.
License: CC0 1.0. Terms / attribution guidance.
Open-Meteo
Weather forecasts and historical weather.
License: CC BY 4.0. Terms / attribution guidance.
IANA Time Zone Database
Canonical timezone identifiers.
OpenAQ
Air-quality observations aggregated from monitoring providers.
Terms / attribution guidance. The original monitoring provider and its license are shown with each station when the API supplies them.
Nager.Date
Public-holiday dates.
License: MIT (software). Holiday facts originate with national authorities; no blanket public-domain claim is made.
CDC Yellow Book
Traveler-focused food and drinking-water safety guidance.
WHO drinking-water guidance
Public-health baseline for safe drinking water and sanitation.
World Standards
Country-by-country domestic plug, voltage, and frequency reference.
OpenFreeMap
Hosted vector basemap style and tiles.
Terms / attribution guidance. Interactive maps visibly credit OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, and OpenStreetMap.
TransitLand
Transit operator and route-mode aggregation.
Terms / attribution guidance. Underlying GTFS feeds have operator-specific licenses; TransitLand’s terms page supplies the required source-feed attribution.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
World Heritage identifiers and canonical site records.
Google Maps
User-saved Takeout imports, retained Place IDs, and outbound map links.
Terms / attribution guidance. The atlas does not persist or display Places API ratings, price levels, hours, phone numbers, or descriptions.
Travel.State.gov
Entry, safety, emergency, and advisory context for U.S. travelers.
Google Maps boundary
Google Takeout supplies Mike’s own saved-list exports. The atlas may retain Google Place IDs and user-saved Google Maps links, and it links readers to Google Maps. It does not persist or display Places API ratings, rating counts, price levels, hours, phone numbers, or descriptions. See the site terms and privacy notice for the platform terms and browser-request disclosures.
Map attribution
Interactive maps load OpenFreeMap’s vector style. The visible, expanded map control credits OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, and OpenStreetMap next to the map. Compact card backs use a local coordinate graticule and do not fetch third-party raster tiles.
Image attribution
Personal photographs lead city, country, guide, and pin pages. Photo-less city pages use a local coordinate graphic instead of automatically borrowing a Wikimedia image. Any explicitly retained Commons image carries its author, license, and canonical file link.
Selected transit postcard covers are stock photographs licensed from Envato Elements for this site. The project records retain the source item identifiers; the photographs are not offered for redistribution.