Credits and Data Sources

Last updated: September 29, 2026

This page lists attribution and licensing for key external datasets used by Mind the Journey.

Wild Realms - Terrestrial Ecoregions

Reference dataset:

  • RESOLVE / WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (2017)
  • Earth Engine catalog: RESOLVE/ECOREGIONS/2017
  • Publication DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix014

Sources:

License:

Recommended attribution:

RESOLVE (2017) and WWF. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Wild Realms - Volcanic Layer (Holocene Volcanoes)

Reference dataset:

  • Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program (GVP)
  • WFS layer: GVP-VOTW:Smithsonian_VOTW_Holocene_Volcanoes
  • Global Volcanism Program, 2025. [Database] Volcanoes of the World (v. 5.3.4; 31 Dec 2025). Distributed by Smithsonian Institution, compiled by Venzke, E. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2025.5.3 (data read from the WFS service on 11 March 2026).

Source:

Usage note:

  • This dataset is used to build a local volcanic-geothermal biome overlay for selected countries in Wild Realms.
  • Volcano points are technically transformed into support polygons for web visualization.

Changes Applied by Mind the Journey

For platform use, original data may be transformed through:

  • geographic format conversion;
  • geometry simplification for web performance;
  • internal thematic regrouping (realms/biomes) for WR rendering;
  • integration with filters and editorial content.

When these transformations are applied, we keep the original source and its license attribution.

2D map

  • Base map: © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  • OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Attribution is also shown on the map.

Boundaries and subdivisions

  • Country boundaries and many subdivisions: Natural Earth, public domain.
  • Regions of France and Spain: geoBoundaries, Etalab Open License 2.0 for France (IGN-F data, 2022) and CC BY 4.0 for Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional data, 2017). Runfola, D. et al. (2020), geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries, PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866.
  • Italian regions and provinces: for the provinces, openpolis, "geojson-italy", from ISTAT boundaries, CC BY 4.0 licence; for the regions, the example file of leaflet-geojson-selector, © 2016 Stefano Cudini, MIT License.

Living Traditions - Cultural areas

  • The cultural areas are adapted from the Glottography "asher2007world" dataset (The Glottography Consortium, 2026, v2.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18613195), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • The dataset is derived from R. E. Asher and C. J. Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages, 2nd edn, Routledge, 2007.
  • Mind the Journey clipped the areas by country and grouped them into cultural zones.

Practical information

  • Emergency numbers: for most countries, GOV.UK, Foreign travel advice, Open Government Licence v3.0. The source and date are shown next to the numbers.
  • Risk, health, entry and visas: links to the official pages of Viaggiare Sicuri (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) and GOV.UK.

Icons and flags

  • Icons: Tabler Icons, version 2.47.0, © 2020-2023 Paweł Kuna, MIT License.
  • Flags: images by Flagpedia.net (flagcdn.com service), public domain, based on Wikimedia Commons files.

Software

Note on Other Sources

Other third-party datasets or content used in different project areas may have different license terms. Where applicable, attribution is reported in the relevant pages or modules.