Credits

Last updated: October 26, 2026

WhereWe is built with other people’s work, shared under open licenses. This page credits it and gives the licenses that ask to be shown.

Fonts

The website uses these typefaces, served from wherewe.net. All four are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1; the full license text, with each family’s copyright notice, is at wherewe.net/assets/fonts/OFL.txt.

Literata — Copyright 2017 The Literata Project Authors (github.com/googlefonts/literata)
Wix Madefor Text — Copyright 2023 The Wix Madefor Project Authors (github.com/wix/wixmadefor)
Frank Ruhl Libre — Copyright 2015 The Frank Ruhl Libre Project Authors (github.com/fontef/frankruhllibre)
Heebo — Copyright 2014 The Heebo Project Authors (github.com/OdedEzer/heebo)

Maps

On public map pages (wherewe.net)

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
© OpenMapTiles. Map tiles and the Positron style by OpenFreeMap.
Hill shading from Natural Earth (public domain).
Drawn with MapLibre GL JS — Copyright (c) 2023, MapLibre contributors; it contains code from Mapbox GL JS v1.13 and earlier, Copyright (c) 2020, Mapbox. BSD 3-Clause License (below).
Right-to-left place names with mapbox-gl-rtl-text — copyright (c) 2017 Mapbox, BSD 2-Clause License (below); derived from the International Components for Unicode (ICU), Copyright © 1991–2016 Unicode, Inc., under the Unicode license.

Each map also shows its attribution in its corner; tap or hover over the ⓘ button to see it again after you move the map.

In the app

The maps in the WhereWe app are Apple Maps. Their data sources are listed under the Legal link on each map.

Icons in the app

Bootstrap Icons — Copyright (c) 2019-2024 The Bootstrap Authors. MIT License (below).
Fluent UI System Icons — Copyright (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. MIT License (below).
Explore tab: “Compass” icon by The Wolf Kit, via SVG Repo. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours changed.
Landmark category: “Binocular 1” icon, free icons from Streamline (Nova).
Cafe category: Tea icon created by piksart - Flaticon.
Drinks category: Toast icon created by Magnific - Flaticon.
List tab: List icon created by Chanut - Flaticon.

Photos in our screenshots and videos

Our App Store screenshots, the app screens on this website, and our app preview and launch videos show the WhereWe app with these photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the Creative Commons licenses linked. Some appear cropped or resized inside the app. Inside the app, each public map credits its own photos on the place they belong to.

Musée d’Orsay, Paris by Cheng-en Cheng, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sannenzaka, Kyoto by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fushimi canal, Kyoto by 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Nishiki Market, Kyoto by Anagoria, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto, the pond by Ominae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto by Jaycangel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto by Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Casa Batlló, Barcelona by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by Arad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The High Line, New York by Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Katz’s Delicatessen, New York by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Plaza, New York by Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Apollo Bagels, New York by Eden, Janine and Jim, CC BY 2.0.
Levain Bakery, New York by Biskuit, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City by Mickaël en résidence, CC BY-SA 4.0.
British Museum, London by Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Machu Picchu, Peru by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al Khazneh, Petra by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.
Northern lights over Tromsø by AndreaHT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balloons over Göreme by RozenGT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torres del Paine, Chile by Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seljalandsfoss, Iceland by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Trademarks

Apple, the Apple logo, and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Apple Maps is a trademark of Apple Inc.
Google and Google Maps are trademarks of Google LLC.
Instagram and TikTok are trademarks of their respective owners.
WhereWe isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.

License texts

MIT License (Bootstrap Icons; Fluent UI System Icons)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

BSD 3-Clause License (MapLibre GL JS)

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of MapLibre GL JS nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The full MapLibre GL JS license — including the notice for the Mapbox GL JS v1.13 code it contains (Copyright (c) 2020, Mapbox, under the same BSD 3-Clause terms) and for the other code it includes — is at github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js.

BSD 2-Clause License (mapbox-gl-rtl-text)

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Its Unicode (ICU) notice is in the mapbox-gl-rtl-text license.

Contact us

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