Open data
Data sources and attribution
Our venue registry is built from open datasets. This page records where that data comes from and the licence each source is used under.
- MusicBrainz
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Used for: Venue names, addresses and coordinates.
- Overture Maps Foundation — Places
Licence: Per record: CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0, or CC0-1.0
Used for: Venue names, addresses, coordinates, websites, social links and categories.
- Foursquare Open Source Places
Licence: Apache-2.0
Used for: Reaches us inside Overture Places, carrying its own record identifiers.
- Wikidata
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Used for: Official website corroboration.
Licences are recorded per record, never assumed. A venue built from two sources keeps both sources' licences, and a record whose licence we cannot establish is not stored at all.
OpenStreetMap is not used
We deliberately do not use OpenStreetMap or any other ODbL-licensed dataset in our venue registry. ODbL's share-alike terms would extend to the registry as a whole, and that is not a commitment we make on our customers' behalf.
Corrections
If a venue's details are wrong, the venue's owner can claim the listing and edit it directly. Anyone else can report a correction for review.