Data and licences

Attribution

© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 – www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

OpenStreetMap data and all databases derived from it on this page are available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. You may use, change and share them under the same terms.

Routing data (Valhalla tiles)

The basis of bike routing on the device. The app downloads it section by section from tiles.pedalglobe.de.

• Source: the whole world from the OpenStreetMap planet file, data as of 12 October 2026, downloaded from a mirror and checked against the MD5 checksum of planet.openstreetmap.org. Plus elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 and time zones from timezone-boundary-builder (release 2026d, also ODbL).
• Tools: osmium-tool (osmium tags-filter, osmium extract), pyosmium 4.3.1, Valhalla 3.9.1 (valhalla_build_admins, valhalla_build_tiles, valhalla_build_extract, from the pyvalhalla 3.9.1 package), GDAL for the elevation, shapely 2.1.2. Operating system of the build server: Ubuntu 24.04.
• Main settings: filter for ways, ferries, platforms, turn restrictions, route and boundary relations. A network for bikes without pure footpaths and without motor roads, without shortcut edges, with elevation in the edges. Ferry lines that end next to the port get a connector of at most 500 m. Long-distance cycle routes from the route=bicycle relations without variants, approaches and planned routes, weighted 0.80 (EuroVelo and national), 0.85 (regional) and 0.90 (local), in pieces of about 5 km.
• Output: build world-2026-10-12-r3, split along Valhalla's tile grid into 618 packs (about 90 GB). Each pack holds tiles.tar (Valhalla tiles), cycle-routes.json (long-distance cycle routes) and pack.json. Plus the catalogue catalog.json, the connection index cell-graph.json and ODBL.txt with source, tools and method.

Cycle network tiles

The map's Cycle network switch: signposted cycle routes and cycleways of the whole world.

• Source: the same filtered planet file as the routing data, data as of 12 October 2026.
• Content: layer routes with the ways of the route=bicycle relations (networks icn, ncn, rcn, lcn) with level, number and name. Layer cycleways with highway=cycleway and paths, tracks and shared footways with bicycle=designated that are not part of a route. Variants, approaches and planned routes are left out.
• Tools: osmium-tool, pyosmium, tippecanoe 2.79 with tile-join, and the pmtiles program (go-pmtiles) for the extracts.
• Main settings: zoom 3 to 14. First zoom level EuroVelo and national 3, regional 6, local and cycleways 9. tippecanoe with --drop-densest-as-needed, --coalesce, --simplification=4 and --simplify-only-low-zooms.
• Output: one vector archive in PMTiles format (first world build 591 MB), extracts of it per routing section for offline use and the overview cycle-overview built into the app (EuroVelo and national routes up to zoom 8, 10.3 MB).

World overview of the map (zoom 0 to 5)

A coarse world map that is built into the app and works without a connection.

• Source: vector tiles from OpenFreeMap in the OpenMapTiles schema, based on OpenStreetMap data. OpenFreeMap planet build 20261011_080001_pt, downloaded on 18 October 2026 with OpenFreeMap's permission of 12 October 2026.
• Tools: our own Python script (standard library only) that downloads the tiles, trims them and writes a PMTiles archive (version 3).
• Main settings: 1,365 tiles of zoom levels 0 to 5. Names only in the default form, in German, in English and in Latin script (name, name:de, name:en, name:latin), otherwise unchanged.
• Output: a 14.4 MB PMTiles archive, plus style, icons and the font ranges needed (19 MB together).

Land mask of the satellite map

The Satellite map type shows imagery from ESA WorldCover. So that the sea has the same colour everywhere, the build uses a mask made from the OpenStreetMap land polygons (land-polygons-split-3857 from osmdata.openstreetmap.de).

• Tools: GDAL with Python bindings and numpy.
• Main settings: land rasterised in cells of 16 pixels, widened by 1 km and faded out over another kilometre.
• Output: no database of its own. The mask is made anew from the unchanged land polygons in every build and only goes into the imagery (Produced Work). We offer the method for it.

Planned: our own base map and contour lines

• Our own base map (planned): our own build of the whole world from the OpenStreetMap planet file in the OpenMapTiles schema (zoom 0 to 14, as currently planned with Planetiler and planetiler-openmaptiles), for offline maps and our own world overview. It is derived from OpenStreetMap and will also be available under the ODbL. We will add data date, tool versions and settings here with the first build.
• Contour lines (planned): They are made from elevation data, not from OpenStreetMap, and are therefore not covered by the ODbL. We will name source and licence under Data sources & licences with the first build.