Data sources & attribution

WalkSage guides are built on open data. That data comes with licenses, and the licenses come with obligations — this page is where we meet them, and where you can trace where our facts come from.

OpenStreetMap

Place locations, paths, and map-derived data are © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project — if you spot a mapping error, the best fix is contributing it upstream.

Route maps

The stage maps and the route overview on this site are drawn from OpenStreetMap data — principally the Camino de Santiago route relations and the towns along them — and are therefore derived databases under the ODbL v1.0. Every map carries that credit in its own caption, next to the map itself, as the license requires.

These maps are illustrative, not navigational. They are rendered at page scale to show the shape and order of a stage; some are schematic rather than a traced track, and the caption says which. They are not surveyed, not to a stated scale, and not a substitute for a proper map, the waymarking, or a GPS device on the trail.

Photographs (Wikimedia Commons)

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons. Licenses vary from file to file — some are CC BY, some CC BY-SA, some public domain — so there is no single blanket credit that can cover them. Instead, every image on this site carries its own visible credit line directly beneath it, naming the author, the license (linked to the license text), and the source file page on Commons. That credit line is a license obligation, not decoration: it is never hidden behind a hover or a click.

We host copies of the images ourselves (resized, not otherwise altered) so pages load fast and Commons isn't hotlinked. If you are the author of a photograph and the credit is wrong or you want it taken down, tell us and we will fix or remove it — see the contact route below.

Wikidata

Structured facts about places (identifiers, coordinates, relationships) come from Wikidata, whose structured data is published under Creative Commons CC0. Where a point of interest has been reconciled to a Wikidata entity, we link its Q-id directly on the guide page.

Wikipedia

Background reading and historical context draw on Wikipedia, whose text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Articles we relied on are cited as sources on the relevant guide pages.

Open-Meteo

Climate tables use data from Open-Meteo, available under CC BY 4.0. Each climate table links the specific data source it was built from.

How we handle unverified facts

Every stage guide shows the date its data was verified. When a fact cannot be verified against a source — a stage distance, a crowd level, a coordinate — the page renders an honest placeholder ("see stage map", "not yet measured", "pending verification") instead of an invented number. The same rule applies inside the WalkSage app, where every claim carries a confidence rating and cited sources.

Questions about licensing or a correction to report? See the contact details on our terms page once published, or open an issue with the upstream data project where appropriate.