Data sources & credits
Every dataset shown on this map is used under an open licence or public permission from its publisher. This page is a licence obligation, not decoration — the exact wording below is required by the respective publishers. A dated archive of each licence page we rely on is kept with the project's source code.
Basemap
- Map data © OpenStreetMap, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. The vector tileset served here is an unmodified Protomaps basemap build; equivalent data is available from maps.protomaps.com/builds and planet.openstreetmap.org.
- Landcover: © ESA WorldCover project 2020 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium (CC BY 4.0).
- Made with Natural Earth (public domain).
- Map rendering: MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause) and PMTiles (BSD-3-Clause); basemap style (CC0). Licence texts ship with this site's source code.
- Map labels use Noto fonts © the Noto Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Fires — NSW RFS incidents
© State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service). For current information go to www.rfs.nsw.gov.au. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Warning content is displayed unaltered; unmapped incidents are plotted by the RFS at council-area centroids and marked approximate here.
Fire hotspots — Digital Earth Australia Hotspots
© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). Geoscience Australia, 2020. Digital Earth Australia Hotspots dataset. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/111881. Landgate-sourced records © Western Australia Land Information Authority (Landgate). BRIGHT (Himawari) hotspot records: Engel, Jones & Reinke (2021; 2022). Licence: CC BY 4.0. DEA Hotspots is not to be used for safety of life decisions.
Earthquakes — Geoscience Australia
© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Event data only; preliminary solutions may be revised.
Road hazards — Live Traffic NSW
Traffic data © Transport for NSW, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Modified from source: per-category feeds merged into one layer. Transport for NSW does not endorse this site.
River gauges — Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online
Water data published by the Bureau of Meteorology (© Commonwealth of Australia), licensed under CC BY 4.0 per the data-owner table on the Water Data Online copyright page. Station data © WaterNSW. Telemetry is provisional and unvalidated.
Electricity — AEMO
NEM price and demand data © AEMO, sourced from aemo.com.au under AEMO's Copyright Permissions Notice. Values shown unmodified; dispatch prices are subject to later revision by AEMO. Not advice.