Credits: the open data and photos behind Britlens

Source	Used for	Licence	Notes
Wikimedia Commons contributors	Photographs	CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC0 (varies per photo). Photos under CC BY-SA stay under that licence: you may reuse them only on the same terms.	Individual credits appear on the pages where photos are shown.
Wikipedia contributors	Background reading for some place descriptions (our own wording; no Wikipedia text is copied)	Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA 4.0	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
OpenStreetMap contributors	Place data and map tiles	ODbL 1.0	www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
OpenStreetMap contributors (practical layers)	Public toilets, step-free and changing-facility tags, drinking water (/practical/, map and Near me)	ODbL 1.0. Contains information from OpenStreetMap, a snapshot kept on this site.	www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Transport for London	Live line status, journey planning and station data (/transport/, Near me)	TfL Transport Data Service terms, based on the Open Government Licence v2.0 with TfL amendments	tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/transport-data-service
GOV.UK	Bank holidays (/four-nations/) and facts from gov.uk guidance (entry, ETA, driving, health)	Open Government Licence v3.0	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Met Office	Monthly climate averages 1991-2020 (when-to-visit and weather pages)	Open Government Licence v3.0: contains public sector information	www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/location-specific-long-term-averages
National Rail	Links to journey planners and ticket guidance; journey-time facts checked on its pages	No data feed is used: we link to National Rail pages and state facts in our own words	www.nationalrail.co.uk/
OpenStreetMap Nominatim	Street-address search on the planner and Near me (only when you press Search)	ODbL 1.0 (data); OSM Foundation usage policy	operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/
postcodes.io	Postcode lookup	MIT (software); OS OpenData and ONS licences (Great Britain postcodes)	postcodes.io
Wikidata	Facts about places	CC0	www.wikidata.org
flag-icons	Language-menu flags (served from this site)	MIT; flag artwork from public-domain files on Wikimedia Commons	github.com/lipis/flag-icons

Photo credits

Every Wikimedia Commons photo on the site, with its photographer, licence and source: see the full list.

Map data

Transport for London open data

Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights 2019.

We use TfL data under the Transport Data Service terms, which are based on version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence. Britlens is independent: it is not an official TfL service and is not endorsed by Transport for London, and we do not use TfL logos or branding. Photos of stations that show TfL signs are Wikimedia Commons photographs, credited on the photo credits page.

Licences in full

Open Government Licence v3.0: GOV.UK content and bank holidays, Met Office climate averages.
Open Government Licence v2.0: the basis of TfL's Transport Data Service terms.
Open Database Licence 1.0: OpenStreetMap data, maps and address search.
CC BY 4.0: Open-Meteo weather data, when the weather widget is switched on.
CC0 1.0: Wikidata.
CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 and public domain: individual Wikimedia Commons photos, each named on the photo credits page.
National Rail: no licensed feed is used; we only link to its pages.

Postcode data

Postcode lookups use postcodes.io. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Northern Ireland (BT) postcodes are not looked up, because commercial use of that data needs a separate licence.

Images from venues

Some images come from the venues' own websites and are shown to help you recognise the place. If you own one and want it removed, email [contact email] and we will take it down promptly.

Trademarks

Venue, brand and organisation names belong to their owners. Mentioning them does not imply endorsement.