PeakBeen shows more than a million peaks around the world. None of that data is ours: it comes from open projects made by thousands of people. This page says where each part comes from, under which licence, and how to fix a mistake.
Peaks
© OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License (ODbL): positions, names, elevations and summit features. PeakBeen’s peak database is derived from OpenStreetMap, and we share it under the ODbL with anyone who asks.
Prominence
A. Kirmse & J. de Ferranti (2017), Calculating the prominence and isolation of every mountain in the world, computed from Copernicus GLO-30. Elevation data © European Union, Copernicus.
Mountain ranges
GMBA Mountain Inventory v2 — Snethlage et al. (2022), Nature Scientific Data, CC BY 4.0.
Countries and regions
Natural Earth — public domain.
Missing elevations
When OpenStreetMap has no elevation for a peak, it comes from Mapzen terrain tiles via Open Topo Data (SRTM, ETOPO1, GMTED2010 and national datasets).
Maps
Standard and Relief: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), in the OpenMapTiles schema (© OpenMapTiles), served by OpenFreeMap. Relief shading © Mapterhorn, from open elevation data including Copernicus GLO-30 (© DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA); full list at mapterhorn.com/attribution. Satellite, Hybrid, Terrain and Winter: © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Descriptions and photos
The summary and the photo of well-known peaks come from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The text is under CC BY-SA 4.0 and links to its article; each photo shows its author and licence in the app.
When the data is wrong
Open data is made by people, and it has gaps: a peak can be missing, have an old name, sit a few metres off or have a different elevation than on another map. We don’t change peaks inside the app: we correct them in the data we prepare, and the fix arrives with the next update.
If you find a mistake, open the peak in the app and choose Report a problem with this peak in its ⋯ menu, or write to [email protected]. You can also fix it at the source: anyone can edit OpenStreetMap, and the fix reaches PeakBeen at the next data refresh.
Your data
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