Effective date: 2026-10-04
BattleBytes is built on open data. These are the credits the providers ask for, and the licenses under which we use their work. Where a dataset appears on a map, its credit also appears in the map's attribution control.
Data and map credits
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Datasets licensed under CC BY 4.0. UCDP is part of and funded by DEMSCORE, national research infrastructure grant 2021-00162 from the Swedish Research Council. Georeferenced events: Sundberg, Ralph and Erik Melander, "Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset," Journal of Peace Research 50(4), 2013. Candidate events: Hegre, Håvard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck and Stina Högbladh, "Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset," Research & Politics, July 2020. ucdp.uu.se
- The GDELT Project. Event data used and redistributed with credit to the GDELT Project. gdeltproject.org
- GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, a cooperation framework of the United Nations and the European Commission. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. gdacs.org
- NASA FIRMS. We acknowledge the use of data from the NASA LANCE FIRMS (earthdata.nasa.gov/firms), part of the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
- adsb.lol contributors. Aircraft position data from the adsb.lol community network, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. adsb.lol
- OpenFreeMap / © OpenMapTiles / © OpenStreetMap contributors. Base map tiles served by OpenFreeMap, using the OpenMapTiles schema, with map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- Natural Earth. Land and country outlines for the globe from Natural Earth, which is in the public domain.
- Copernicus Sentinel data. Where satellite imagery appears: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, with the year of acquisition stated alongside the image.
- Wikipedia war-map modules. Settlement-control data from Wikipedia's war-map modules, by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The module and revision behind each snapshot are recorded in the published control file.
- U.S. Geological Survey. Earthquake data from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, a U.S. government work in the public domain.
Our derived control layers
The control areas, front lines and gray zones we derive from the Wikipedia war-map modules are adaptations of CC BY-SA 4.0 material, and we release them under the same license, CC BY-SA 4.0. They are published as JSON at /data/control/. If you reuse them, credit "BattleBytes (battlebytes.net) and Wikipedia contributors," link to the license, and share your adaptations under the same terms.
Software and type
- MapLibre GL JS, BSD 3-Clause license.
- Typefaces used on the Site are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Missing a credit?
If you provide data or imagery we use and your credit is missing or wrong, email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and we will fix it.