Attributions

OpenStreetMap

Campsites, caravan parks, fuel locations, drinking water, rest areas, dump points, attractions, food stops, mechanics and 4WD tracks are derived from OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors. The database is licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. Map tiles also include © OpenStreetMap, drawn by Mapbox inside the map.

Our pois and tracks tables are a filtered, transformed subset of that database, so they are a derivative database. Under ODbL, if you use a produced work from a derivative database you must be able to get either the derivative database or the method used to make it. The method is below. The same Geofabrik extract you start from is the source database, already published under the ODbL.

How to obtain the OSM-derived data

1. Download the weekly Australia extract: https://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia-latest.osm.pbf. Geofabrik republishes OpenStreetMap under the same ODbL.
2. Keep only the tags TrailWise uses, with osmium tags-filter:

osmium tags-filter australia-latest.osm.pbf \
  nwr/tourism=camp_site,caravan_site,attraction,viewpoint,museum,gallery,artwork,theme_park,zoo,picnic_site \
  nwr/amenity=fuel,drinking_water,sanitary_dump_station,cafe,restaurant,fast_food,pub,bar \
  nwr/shop=bakery,car_repair,tyres \
  nwr/highway=rest_area \
  nwr/natural=waterfall,beach,spring \
  nwr/historic=monument,ruins \
  n/place=city,town,village,hamlet,locality,suburb \
  w/4wd_only=yes \
  r/route=track \
  r/4wd_only=yes \
  -o filtered.osm.pbf

That filter is the alteration. We then map each feature to a category (campsite, caravan park, fuel, water, rest area, dump point, attraction, food or mechanic) from those tags, and we infer a track difficulty label from tracktype, smoothness, surface and 4wd_only:

• 4wd_only=yes, smoothness very_horrible or impassable → extreme
• smoothness horrible or tracktype grade5 → hard
• tracktype grade4 or smoothness very_bad → moderate
• tracktype grade3, smoothness bad, or an unpaved surface → easy
• otherwise → unknown

The difficulty colour is TrailWise's own summary of those tags so the map can be scanned. It is not a safety rating, a road-condition report, or advice that a track is passable.

When a place is tagged with them, dog, opening_hours and 4wd_only are copied onto the place record. Missing tags are left unknown. Public camping pages group 4WD ways that share a normalised name when their endpoints meet, including across a region boundary, or when they belong to the same route relation. The region named on the page is the one that holds the most length. Nearest town, nearest fuel, highway corridor and distance are derived from OpenStreetMap and do not count toward the three-field gate. On a track, difficulty, length and the 4wd_only flag are derived the same way and do not count. Tagged surface, tracktype and smoothness do count.

Place search that gets saved with a trip (start, destination, waypoints, relocated stops, and town names on overnight stops) is also OpenStreetMap, via the public Photon geocoder at photon.komoot.io, which searches OpenStreetMap. Those coordinates and names may be stored. Mapbox Geocoding is not used for anything we save.

Mapbox

The interactive map and the static map on a place page use Mapbox (satellite-streets), including © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap and “Improve this map” on the map itself. Driving directions are requested from Mapbox when you plan a route and are drawn in the browser. We do not store the directions geometry.

Queensland road hazards

Live Queensland road events (flooding, closures, roadworks, incidents) come from the QLDTraffic API. State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads), QLDTraffic, CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0. The event popup shows this credit and how old the report is.

New South Wales road hazards

Live New South Wales hazards come from the Transport for NSW Open Data Hub, Live Traffic Hazards API (api.transport.nsw.gov.au/v1/live/hazards). Transport for NSW, CC BY. Dataset. If no API key is configured, NSW hazards are not shown. We do not republish the livetraffic.com website feeds.

Western Australia fuel prices

Pump prices in Western Australia come from the FuelWatch RSS service. Next to any WA price: FuelWatch (Government of Western Australia). The live feed's own header says all rights reserved; the historic FuelWatch series on data.wa.gov.au is a different dataset (CC BY 4.0). Prices are shown live in the planner, not on static pages, until FuelWatch confirms the RSS terms in writing.

Not shown

Queensland fuel prices are not displayed. Publishing them needs a Fuel Price Reporting publisher agreement, a currency rule we do not meet, and a longer mandatory notice. Community reviews, photos and condition reports are written by TrailWise members and are separate from the OpenStreetMap data they are attached to.