Data sources and licences
Citylith builds cities from open map data and from elevation and building data that governments publish. Each source has its own licence. This page lists them and the credit each one asks for.
For each build, the Citylith panel names the elevation source it used and shows its credit. Whole-city builds made as tiles also get a credits file that lists only the sources that city used. Keep the credits with the model when you deliver or sell it.
Map data
OpenStreetMap: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A city built by Citylith is a Produced Work derived from the OpenStreetMap database. Show the credit wherever the model or its renders are used. openstreetmap.org/copyright
Elevation
Global default
Terrarium elevation tiles (Mapzen / AWS Terrain Tiles), assembled from SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1, NED, EU-DEM and others. Full attribution.
Government bare-earth surveys
Where one of these covers the area, a build uses it instead of the global tiles. A build uses one source at most, and the plugin names it.
| Area | Source | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USGS 3DEP | Public domain | Elevation data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program |
| Canada | NRCan HRDEM | Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0 | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Natural Resources Canada, HRDEM. |
| England | Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DTM | Open Government Licence v3.0 | © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. All rights reserved. |
| France | IGN RGE ALTI | CC BY 4.0 | IGN – RGE ALTI® |
| Netherlands | AHN DTM | CC0 1.0 | Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (AHN), Rijkswaterstaat / PDOK |
| Japan | GSI DEM5 | GSI Content Terms of Use | 国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), 基盤地図情報数値標高モデル |
| Norway | Kartverket DTM | CC BY 4.0 | © Kartverket |
| Poland | GUGiK NMT | Free and open use | Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) |
| Czechia | ČÚZK DMR 5G | CC BY 4.0 | © ČÚZK, Digitální model reliéfu České republiky 5. generace |
| Estonia | Maa-amet DTM | Estonian Land Board open data licence | Elevation data, Republic of Estonia Land and Spatial Development Board |
| Germany · NRW | Geobasis NRW DGM1 | dl-de/zero-2-0 | Geobasis NRW |
| Germany · Brandenburg | LGB DGM1 | dl-de/by-2-0 | © GeoBasis-DE/LGB, dl-de/by-2-0 |
| Germany · Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | LAiV DGM | dl-de/by-2-0 | © GeoBasis-DE/M-V, dl-de/by-2-0 |
3D buildings
Where governments publish measured 3D buildings (LOD2), Citylith uses them. Everywhere else, buildings come from the map.
| Area | Source | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3D BAG | 3D BAG by the 3D geoinformation research group (TU Delft) and 3DGI, CC BY 4.0 |
| Japan | PLATEAU (MLIT) | Source: MLIT Project PLATEAU (CC BY 4.0) |
| Germany · NRW | 3D-Gebäudemodell LoD2 | Geobasis NRW, dl-de/zero-2-0 |
| Germany · Lower Saxony | 3D-Gebäudemodelle LoD2 | © GeoBasis-DE / LGLN, OpenGeoData.NI |
| Germany · Berlin | 3D-Gebäudemodelle LoD2 | Geoportal Berlin / 3D-Gebäudemodelle im LoD2, dl-de/zero-2-0 |
| Germany · Brandenburg | 3D-Gebäudemodelle LoD2 | © GeoBasis-DE/LGB, dl-de/by-2-0 |
| France | IGN BD TOPO (measured heights where the map has none) | IGN – BD TOPO®, CC BY 4.0 |
Tree cover
When the canopy option is on, Citylith adds woods the map does not draw, from Meta / WRI High Resolution Canopy Height Maps: Canopy height: Meta and World Resources Institute (WRI), High Resolution Canopy Height Maps, CC BY 4.0; source imagery © 2016 Maxar.
Textures and models
- Surface, facade and roof textures are composed from CC0 1.0 materials by ambientCG and Poly Haven. CC0 needs no credit; we name them anyway.
- Street furniture and tree models: CC0 1.0, Poly Haven. Traffic signals, signs, bus stops, bollards, bike racks, post boxes, kiosks and drinking fountains are modelled by Citylith.
This website
- Every render, video and the 3D model on this site is a real Citylith build of the Harlem River area of New York. Trees in these visuals are simple stand-ins.
- Teaser music: "Rising Sun" by Diego Nava, and sound effects, from Mixkit (Mixkit free licences).
- Fonts: Instrument Serif, Inter Tight and JetBrains Mono, SIL Open Font License 1.1, served by Google Fonts.
- 3D viewer: three.js, MIT licence.