Credits
Window Seat is built on open data and a few paid services. Thank you to all of them.
Data
- Landmarks: Window Landmarks, our own dataset of 6,500 rated landmarks (CC BY 4.0), seeded from Wikidata (CC0) and Natural Earth (public domain).
- City lights at night: NASA Black Marble.
- Flights and flight paths: FlightAware AeroAPI. Contains AeroAPI data © FlightAware LLC 2026.
- Route network: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (public domain).
- Weather and clouds: Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
- Airports: airportsdata by Mike Borsetti (MIT; Copyright (c) 2020- Mike Borsetti; Copyright (c) 2014 mwgg) and OurAirports (public domain).
- Landmark photos: Wikimedia Commons. Each photo is credited on its card with its author and licence; we show only freely licensed files.
Maps and imagery
- Route maps and night lights: NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble, via NASA GIBS. We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
- Takeoff and landing: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024), the 2024 layer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Images on this site made from it share that licence.
- Landmark close-ups: Powered by Esri | Source: Esri, Vantor, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community. Through ArcGIS Location Platform.
- Borders and coastlines: Natural Earth (public domain).
Fonts
- Sora: SIL Open Font License 1.1, via Google Fonts.
- Saira Semi Condensed: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (Copyright 2016 The Saira Project Authors).
MIT licence notice (airportsdata)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.