Attribution and safety

This page covers the route catalogue offered inside Mintakka: where its data comes from, what its licence asks of you, and what a route in it is and is not.

Route data — OpenStreetMap, ODbL 1.0

The routes marked Official are ours. Most of them are a derivative database built from © OpenStreetMap contributors data, and are made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. The rest are taken from public registers, each under its own licence (the next section).

Every Official route names its source and its licence on its screen, and the GPX file you download repeats them inside the file, in the copyright element of its metadata.

If you redistribute the routes built from OpenStreetMap, or publish a database derived from them, the ODbL asks you to keep that attribution and to release your derived database under the same terms.

The routes marked Community were published by riders, not built by us, and they are not ODbL. What you may do with one of those is in the terms of use.

When the app plans a route for you, the line it draws is computed over OpenStreetMap data too. Crediting OpenStreetMap where the map is shown — which is what this page and the app's own Map data sources screen do — is the whole of what that asks of us, and it asks nothing of you.

Route data — public registers

Some Official routes do not come from OpenStreetMap but from a public register: the record a national or regional authority keeps of its own signposted routes. We convert and simplify their geometry, and each of those routes carries its register's licence — that licence, not the ODbL, says what you may do with it.

These are the registers whose licence asks for a notice, each with the notice as they write it:

A register whose licence asks for no notice is not listed here; its routes still name their source and licence on their own screen.

A route here is open data, not a guarantee

Routes come from open data. We do not survey them, walk them or inspect them, and we do not guarantee that any of them is passable, permitted, or safe.

Nor has anybody checked the ones another rider published: a Community route is somebody's own outing, not a recommendation, and everything on this page applies to it as much as to ours. What may and may not be published is in the content policy.

Where a route is described as an official or signposted trail, that is how it is mapped in OpenStreetMap or recorded in the register it comes from. On-ground signage always prevails over anything shown on the screen.

Conditions change. A path can be closed, flooded, overgrown, rerouted, buried in snow or simply gone. Check local information before you set out, carry a map and the means to use it, and judge for yourself what you are able to do on the day.

You use the catalogue at your own risk. To the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss or damage arising from the use of a route.

A route that is wrong

Open the route in the app and use Report a problem. The report tells us which route and what is wrong with it, and nothing about you — no account, no email address, no location.

It is the fastest way to get a bad route out of the catalogue, and it is what our re-curation works from.

The rest of the app's data

The map, terrain, routing and icon sources the app renders are credited in full inside it, under Settings → Map data sources. Map data there is © OpenStreetMap contributors under ODbL as well; terrain and icons carry their own licences.