Last Updated: 2026-08-14
Waycarta builds its relocation planning and analysis tools on data published by other organizations. Several of those publishers require that anyone who passes their material on also passes along a licence, a notice, or a specific credit line. This page is where Waycarta publishes them.
The business and service listings Waycarta shows for a location — listing names and categories, coordinates and addresses, and links to a business's own website — are derived in part from the Places dataset published by the Overture Maps Foundation.
Overture assembles Places from several contributing providers, and each provider's material carries its own licence. The licences and notices in this section are the ones that apply to the Overture-derived material Waycarta publishes. Overture's attribution and licensing page, docs.overturemaps.org/attribution, remains authoritative for the per-provider terms and is the source of the attribution reproduced below.
Overture suggests, but does not require, that publications and research reports using its data carry a citation in this wording together with the date the data were accessed. Waycarta gives the credit voluntarily, in the wording Overture suggests. It does not carry an access date, so it is a credit rather than the complete citation Overture describes:
Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org
Reproduced from the Overture Maps Foundation.
Data from Meta. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from Microsoft. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from PinMeTo. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from Krick. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from RenderSEO. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from DAC. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from BrightQuery. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from Foursquare. Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Available under Apache 2.0. Foursquare data was transformed to the Overture schema. Changed: 2026-03-18. NOTICE.txt.
Data from AllThePlaces. Available under CC0 1.0.
Waycarta does not publish Overture Places data unchanged. Section 4(b) of the Apache License, Version 2.0 and the Foursquare OS Places NOTICE below both call for prominent notice of changes but set no wording for it, so the notice below is Waycarta's own — it describes Waycarta's processing and no part of it is quoted from Foursquare or Overture:
Waycarta modification notice. Waycarta's listings are a modified selection of Overture Places data, taken from a single pinned public Overture release. Waycarta selects a subset of records by country and by category, excludes records marked permanently closed and records without a usable website link, normalizes listing names and categories into Waycarta's own listing taxonomy, associates each record with a Waycarta place, checks the published website link, and derives the displayed coordinates from the record's published geometry. Any error in the result is Waycarta's. Foursquare, the Overture Maps Foundation, and the other contributing providers do not endorse Waycarta or its use of their data.
Applies to: the Foursquare-contributed records in the Overture Places data Waycarta publishes.
Foursquare licenses its OS Places dataset under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and requires that the full content of its NOTICE be preserved by anyone who uses, modifies, or distributes the data. The NOTICE is reproduced below in full and unmodified; the Waycarta modification notice above is the separate notice of changes that this NOTICE invites, and it has not been folded into the NOTICE text itself. The authoritative copy is published at opensource.foursquare.com/places-notice-txt; in that copy, the phrase "join our Placemaker community" links to https://opensource.foursquare.com/placemaker/.
Foursquare OS Places Notice
© 2026 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Foursquare OS Places dataset (the “Data”) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”). You may not use, modify, or distribute the Data except in compliance with the License.
As set forth more fully in the License, if you use, modify, or distribute the Data, you must:
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To ensure appropriate attribution to Foursquare, we recommend the following:
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You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, the Data distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
We also encourage you to join our Placemaker community where you can contribute and provide suggestions to improve the accuracy of the Data for future releases for yourself and others.
Applies to: the Foursquare-contributed records in the Overture Places data Waycarta publishes, per the attribution above.
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