Sources & open data

The notices the licences require, and the databases I am obliged to offer. No account, secret handshake or email required.

The database behind Stinky Places

The Stinky Places check runs on a database I build from the three sources below. Because it is derived from OpenStreetMap, the Open Database Licence 1.0 (ODbL) obliges me to offer the whole database under the same licence, so here it is: the site records, source evidence, full footprints, matching IDs and coverage information used by this check.

Download the Stinky Places database (.json.gz)

It’s machine-readable JSON, compressed with gzip. Coordinates use WGS84; the file includes GeoJSON and exact EWKB geometries. Licence notices and source credits travel inside the file.

The check applies reviewed alterations on top of the database, so those are offered too: my earlier location-review alterations (.json), my current location and identity reviews (.json), which include those earlier holds, and my reviewed names and descriptions (.json). Each file carries its own application rules under the same ODbL offer. I don’t rewrite old snapshots or published reviews.

I archive each newly published snapshot automatically and keep the archived downloads available when the working database is refreshed. The machine-readable manifest lists the available versions.

The notice you must keep

The licence makes two things conditions of reuse, not courtesies. Keep the notice inside the file intact in every copy of the database you pass on (ODbL 4.2c). And on anything you publish that was made from it, tell the reader that the data came from the Inspector Walls Stinky Places database and is available under the ODbL (ODbL 4.3). The notice below does both. Keep the upstream credits with it.

Data from the Inspector Walls Stinky Places database (ODbL 1.0). Includes © OpenStreetMap contributors · UK PRTR · SEPA. Source credits and licences.

Download the notice & reuse guide (.txt). It carries the full upstream notices and plain-text links for use outside a web page.

If you publicly use an adapted database, or outputs from it, follow the ODbL share-alike and database-offer rules. This does not require opening your entire app. The licences decide when these duties apply, including their exceptions.

OpenStreetMap

UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (2024)

UK PRTR: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

SEPA Waste Management Licenced Sites

Reusing it

You can use this open database commercially, copy it and adapt it under the ODbL. Keep the credits and licence notices, and follow its share-alike and database-offer requirements where they apply. Individual source contents retain their applicable licences and other rights.

I publish the full Stinky Places database, including its matching IDs and added fields, not my application or processing code. The open-data licences do not grant rights to my branding or a hosted search service. They still allow commercial database reuse. This offer covers the Stinky Places facility database, not unrelated datasets or the application’s code.

© Outstandly Ventures Ltd. This derivative database is made available under the Open Database Licence 1.0. Contains information from OpenStreetMap, made available under the Open Database Licence. Individual source contents retain their applicable licences and third-party rights.

My website terms do not take away rights granted by these open licences. The data comes without a warranty; an open licence does not grant rights to personal data or other third-party material it excludes.

The databases behind Noisy places, Nature finds and the walking distances

Three more checks run on databases cut from OpenStreetMap. Contains information from OpenStreetMap, made available under the Open Database Licence 1.0 (ODbL). The licence lets a derived database be offered as the method of making it, so that is what these are; the manifest lists them.

The databases behind recorded aircraft passes

Two databases derived from ADSB.lol historical flight data. Contains information from ADSB.lol, made available under the Open Database Licence 1.0 (ODbL). I offer both, entire, under the same licence, free and machine-readable. The same two conditions apply: keep the notice with every copy, and credit this database and ADSB.lol on anything you publish that was made from it.

Software I didn’t write

The open-source licences behind the website’s drawings ask their notices to travel with the copies: the third-party notices (.txt). The extension carries its own at the end of its drawing bundle.