Data and licences
Updated 27 September 2026
Overflown is built on other people's data. Here is every source we use: what for, under which licence, and the credit it asks for.
Airports: OurAirports
Airport names, codes and coordinates. Your map's routes, distances and countries are computed from those coordinates.
Public domain. ourairports.com
Countries, regions and cities: Natural Earth
The countries and regions that light up, their borders and the city lights, on the map, the poster and the share image.
Public domain. naturalearthdata.com
Airlines: OpenFlights
To tell which airline each flight number belongs to, and to count the airlines in your Passport.
Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0. openflights.org
Contains information from OpenFlights, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.
Time zones: timezone-boundary-builder
Each airport's time zone, to show times in local time.
Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0: the data come from OpenStreetMap. timezone-boundary-builder
Time zone data from timezone-boundary-builder, based on data © OpenStreetMap contributors, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.
Terrain: Terrain Tiles, by Mapzen, on AWS Open Data
The terrain profile under your route in the Expediente de Misión: the highest ground on each side of the flight.
Open data, crediting each of its sources, listed verbatim below. AWS registry entry · Licence
Terrain Tiles was accessed on 27 September 2026 from https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles.
- Mapzen
- 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
Flight data: AeroDataBox
The airports, times, status and aircraft of a flight you add by its number, and the arrivals link. What it gives us is deleted after seven days, except what you confirm.
Paid licence. aerodatabox.com