Licences

The open software, data and voices Vetta uses, with the notices their licences ask us to ship.

Shipped in the app

• MapLibre GL JS 4.7.1: map rendering. BSD 3-Clause. Copyright (c) MapLibre contributors; portions copyright (c) Mapbox, Inc.
• maplibre-contour: contour lines on the map. BSD 3-Clause. Copyright (c) Michael Barry and contributors.
• MapLibre Native for iOS 6.31.0: the car's map on CarPlay. BSD 2-Clause (the first two conditions and the disclaimer of the BSD 3-Clause License below). Copyright (c) 2021 MapLibre contributors; copyright (c) 2018-2021 MapTiler.com; copyright (c) 2014-2020 Mapbox.
• QR Code Generator for JavaScript 2.0.4: the convoy QR code. MIT. Copyright (c) 2009 Kazuhiko Arase. "QR Code" is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.
• Kokoro-82M (hexgrad) and its voice packs: the recorded co-driver voices. Apache License 2.0.
• misaki 0.9.4 (hexgrad) dictionaries and graphemes_to_phonemes (Peter Reid) models: words to sounds. Apache License 2.0.
• Fonts: Barlow Condensed (copyright 2017 The Barlow Project Authors) and Inter Tight (copyright 2022 The Inter Project Authors), shipped in the app as fonts/*.woff2, and IBM Plex. SIL Open Font License 1.1; the full text ships beside the fonts: fonts/OFL.txt.

Data and services

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0), served by OpenFreeMap.
• Routing, map matching and posted limits: Valhalla (MIT) on the FOSSGIS public server.
• Address search: Nominatim (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL). Search suggestions: Photon by Komoot (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL).
• Road network for routing (data/graph): derived from OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extracts) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0; the derived road tiles are offered under the same licence.
• Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium), from the sources listed at registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles.
• Satellite imagery (developer accounts only): USGS The National Map, Orthoimagery (USDA NAIP and USGS), public domain.
• Plate-reading cameras: OpenStreetMap (surveillance:type=ALPR, DeFlock), ODbL.
• Route ranking: land use, buildings, businesses, schools, streams, signals, stop signs, speed limits, lanes, warning signs, guard rails, cycle routes, scenic byways and fuel stations: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, via OpenFreeMap tiles and the public Overpass servers (overpass-api.de, Kumi Systems, private.coffee, VK Maps).
• Fuel stations, road lighting, tunnels and cycle routes (route planning): OpenStreetMap (amenity=fuel, lit, tunnel, route=bicycle), ODbL.
• EV chargers: the Alternative Fuel Stations data of the US Department of Energy (National Laboratory of the Rockies, formerly NREL), public domain.
• Weather: Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, CC BY 4.0. Current conditions: US National Weather Service station observations (api.weather.gov), public domain. Sun position: NOAA's solar calculation, worked out on the phone.
• Rivers: NOAA National Water Prediction Service flood categories and U.S. Geological Survey real-time stream gauges (public domain).
• Work zones and closures: state Work Zone Data Exchange feeds from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Indiana DOT and, with its key, Ohio DOT (OHGO); public data, provided as is. Closures, roadwork, slow traffic and crashes on the map: Indiana DOT's CARS traveler information (public domain), the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's WZDx feed and, with its key, Ohio DOT's OHGO incidents, construction, travel delays, dangerous slowdowns, road weather sensors and message signs; provided as is. Road cameras: Ohio DOT's traffic camera pictures (OHGO), shown as published.
• Harvest: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Crop Progress (public domain) and USDA Agricultural Handbook 628. Park seasons: National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics (public domain).
• Deer seasons: Ohio State Highway Patrol, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Indiana State Police, West Virginia DNR, Tennessee DOT and Virginia DMV crash figures.
• Games: MLB schedules, Copyright MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt). Events: Event data by SeatGeek, when set up.
• Photo locations: Wikimedia Commons (positions only).
• Traffic signs: © Mapillary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (when set up).
• Route context (preprocessed into the app's context grid; US Government works are public domain): night lights from NASA's Black Marble annual night-time lights (VNP46A4, VIIRS Day/Night Band; Román et al. 2018, doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A4.002) from the NASA LAADS DAAC, or where not yet rebuilt the Black Marble 2016 image, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory, served by NASA GIBS; impervious surface (NLCD 2021) and tree canopy (NLCD/USFS Tree Canopy Cover 2021) from USGS and the MRLC consortium; road noise from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Noise Map; housing units and residents (2020 Census blocks) and median year built (American Community Survey 5-year) from the US Census Bureau; address points from OpenAddresses contributors and the county and state agencies that publish them (each under its own terms; only counts per area are kept); traffic volume, pavement roughness, speed limits, lanes and functional class from the FHWA Highway Performance Monitoring System and the state DOTs; fatal crashes from the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System; flood hazard zones from the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; crop types from the USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer (via Microsoft Planetary Computer); park boundaries and visitor counts from the National Park Service. None of these agencies endorses Vetta.

Website only

The website can speak road names with transformers.js (Apache License 2.0, bundling onnxruntime-web, MIT), downloaded when that switch is turned on. The iOS app never loads it.

BSD 3-Clause License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

MIT License

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, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Apache License 2.0

The full text ships with the app: LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.txt.

SIL Open Font License 1.1

The fonts may be used, bundled and redistributed freely with software, but not sold on their own. Full text: openfontlicense.org.