WayarooData sources and credits
Wayaroo brings together open data. Each source keeps its own licence and credit.
| What you see | Source | Licence / terms |
|---|---|---|
| Wind, rain, snow, fog and storms | NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS) on NOAA Open Data (AWS). Download code adapted from God’s Eye View (MIT License, © 2026 Bilawal Sidhu); GRIB decoding by ecCodes (Apache-2.0) | U.S. public domain; NOAA does not endorse Wayaroo |
| Dust and smoke haze | NOAA GEFS-Aerosols forecast on NOAA Open Data (AWS) | U.S. public domain; NOAA does not endorse Wayaroo |
| Where each train and tram started and is going | Transport Victoria GTFS Schedule | CC BY 4.0 |
| Flights and flight routes | adsb.lol contributors | ODbL 1.0 |
| Satellites and space stations | Orbit data from CelesTrak; positions by satellite.js (MIT) | U.S.-government origin data |
| Rocket launches | The Space Devs – Launch Library 2 | Free API, with attribution |
| Traffic cameras | Live Traffic NSW (Transport for NSW); Powered by TfL Open Data; Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi; DriveBC; Hong Kong Transport Department (DATA.GOV.HK) | CC BY 4.0; TfL Open Data terms; CC BY 4.0; Open Government Licence – BC; DATA.GOV.HK terms |
| Bike & scooter share | Each operator's open GBFS feed (Citi Bike, Divvy, Bluebikes, Bicing, Oslo Bysykkel and hundreds more), found through MobilityData's GBFS catalogue (CC BY 3.0). Only feeds without a key and under an open licence are shown (GBFS 3.0 feeds without a licence are public domain by the GBFS rules). | Each operator's open licence; the catalogue CC BY 3.0 |
| Radio stations | Radio Browser directory; audio streams come from each station | Directory: public domain |
| Ships | AISStream.io | AISStream terms |
| NASA today | NASA GIBS, VIIRS true colour | NASA open data |
| 3D hills | AWS Terrain Tiles (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1 and others) | Open data, with attribution |
| Ideas and code for these features | God's Eye View | MIT License, © 2026 Bilawal Sidhu |
| Live trains, trams and buses | Transport Victoria GTFS-Realtime | CC BY 4.0 |
| Road closures and incidents | Transport Victoria unplanned disruptions | CC BY 4.0 |
| Base map | OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL 1.0 (data); OpenMapTiles schema CC BY 4.0 |
| Places from the base map (schools, hospitals, police, fire stations, fuel, chargers, car parks, toilets outside Victoria) | © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors, served by OpenFreeMap | ODbL 1.0 |
| Satellite view (free) | Sentinel-2 cloudless – s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Aerial photos, New South Wales | NSW Department of Customer Service (Spatial Services), NSW_Imagery | CC BY 3.0 AU |
| Satellite view (sharper, optional, this Mac only) | Microsoft Bing aerial imagery through Cesium ion (free Community account, non-commercial) | Cesium ion terms; © Microsoft and its imagery suppliers |
| Street photos (optional) | Mapillary contributors | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Speed limit in the speedometer | Road speed limits from © OpenStreetMap contributors; in Victoria the nearest DTP speed sign as backup | ODbL 1.0 / CC BY 4.0 |
| Government-funded EV chargers | © State of Victoria (DEECA), Government Funded Public EV Chargers | CC BY 4.0 |
| Traffic lights, hospitals and emergency services | © State of Victoria (DEECA), Vicmap Transport and Vicmap Features of Interest | CC BY 4.0 |
| VicEmergency warnings and incidents | VicEmergency, State of Victoria, Australia (terms). Each item shows when it was last updated. | CC BY 3.0 AU |
| Earthquakes (worldwide) | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Air quality index (worldwide, modelled) | PM2.5 and PM10 from the NOAA GEFS-Aerosols forecast, turned into the U.S. EPA index by Wayaroo | U.S. public domain; NOAA does not endorse Wayaroo |
| Speed limits (Victoria) | Speed Zones, Department of Transport and Planning (monthly), with school zones applied only on school days (Victorian school terms from vic.gov.au) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Planned roadworks and closures | Planned Disruptions – Road, Transport Victoria | CC BY 4.0 |
| Public transport trips and times | Wayaroo's own planner on this computer: MOTIS (MIT licence) with Transport Victoria timetables and OpenStreetMap data (BBBike extract). Myki fares are estimates from published 2026 fares. | CC BY 4.0 / ODbL |
| Disaster alerts outside Victoria | GDACS – Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (European Commission JRC & UN OCHA) | Free use with credit |
| Live vehicles in other cities | Each transport operator's open GTFS-Realtime feed, found through the Mobility Database catalogue. The operator is named on each vehicle. | Each operator's own open licence |
| Speed cameras, speed limits, schools, traffic lights, hospitals, police, fire stations and car parks outside Victoria | © OpenStreetMap contributors. Camera alerts are not shown in Switzerland, where they are illegal. | ODbL |
| Area profiles (population, rent, income, Census) | Australian Bureau of Statistics: 2025 population estimates, 2021 Census, Data by Region. ABS adds small random changes to Census numbers to protect privacy. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Community centres and libraries (likely toilets) | Vicmap Features of Interest, State of Victoria | CC BY 4.0 |
| Public toilets (Australia; OpenStreetMap elsewhere) | National Public Toilet Map, Australian Government | CC BY 3.0 AU |
| Crash hotspots | Victoria Road Crash Data, Department of Transport and Planning | CC BY 3.0 AU |
| Speed limit signs | Speed Signs, Department of Transport and Planning | CC BY 4.0 |
| Freeway electronic signs (live) | Transport Victoria Lane Use Management Signals | CC BY 4.0 |
| School zones | Vicmap Features of Interest (schools), State of Victoria | CC BY 4.0 |
| Fixed road safety cameras (speed, red-light, point-to-point) | Cameras Save Lives, State of Victoria | CC BY 4.0 |
| Petrol stations, other EV chargers | © OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Overpass API | ODbL 1.0 |
| Place search | Photon by komoot, data © OpenStreetMap contributors | Fair use; ODbL 1.0 (data) |
| Driving routes | OSRM on the FOSSGIS routing servers, © OpenStreetMap contributors · fix the map | FOSSGIS usage policy; ODbL 1.0 (data) |
| True north for the compass | World Magnetic Model 2025 (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and the British Geological Survey), worked out on your phone by Wayaroo | U.S. public domain; NOAA does not endorse Wayaroo |
| Weather now | Worked out by Wayaroo from the NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS) on NOAA Open Data (AWS) | U.S. public domain; NOAA does not endorse Wayaroo |
| Satellite fire heat spots | NASA FIRMS | Public domain. "We acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)." |
| CBD parking bays | City of Melbourne Open Data, on-street parking bay sensors | As published on the dataset page |
| Air quality | EPA Victoria Environment Monitoring API | CC BY 4.0 |
| Community reports | People using Wayaroo | Shown as reported; not checked |
| Map engine | MapLibre GL JS | BSD-3-Clause |
| Fuel prices (official, Victoria) | Service Victoria Servo Saver Public API, published about a day late; shown once Wayaroo's key is set | CC BY 4.0 |
| Fuel prices (from drivers) | People using Wayaroo, at the pump | Shown as reported; not checked |
| Live vehicles in other cities (gaps) | Operators' own live feeds, found in Transitland Atlas (CC BY 4.0, transit.land) and read straight from each operator. Only feeds with no key whose licence allows passing them on are used; the operator is named on the map. | Each operator's own licence; the directory CC BY 4.0 |
| Plus codes (short addresses) | Open Location Code specification, written again for Wayaroo | Apache-2.0 |
| Speed humps, lane arrows | © OpenStreetMap contributors (traffic_calming and turn:lanes tags), routes by OSRM | ODbL 1.0 |
Wayaroo is not endorsed by any of these organisations.