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Attributions And Third-Party Notices

Last updated: September 27, 2026

Boba Globe includes route-provider data, route-object models, Earth texture imagery, texture transcoding tools, video export tooling, and open-source software. The notices below identify the main third-party materials, credits, and licenses used by the app.

Route Provider Attributions

Provider credits apply only when the related route provider is enabled and used for a route shown in the app or in an exported visualization.

Flightradar24

Recorded flight search results and flight tracks are provided by Flightradar24 and are credited as "Flight data by Flightradar24" where imported.

BusMaps

BusMaps transit route geometry and timing must credit busmaps.com where rendered or exported.

Wikipedia and Wikidata

Place search in the apps checks Wikipedia to rank well-known landmarks and may show their titles, coordinates, and short descriptions. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikidata data is CC0.

3D Model Attributions

Built-in route objects are original Boba Globe and Only eSIM designs. Creator and license details for the current models are listed below.

Third-Party Software Notices

Runtime software notices are based on the production dependency set checked for this release. FFmpeg fallback export assets run in the browser only when the fallback is enabled and used; then FFmpeg core code is loaded by the browser from the package source listed below.

@ffmpeg/core

Browser-loaded FFmpeg core used for fallback video export when WebCodecs is unavailable and the fallback is enabled.

0.12.9GPL-2.0-or-later

@ffmpeg/ffmpeg

FFmpeg WASM JavaScript wrapper vendored under /vendor/ffmpeg.

0.12.15MIT

IM Fell English (via @fontsource/im-fell-english)

Italic place names on the Treasure Map (the Fell Types, digitized by Igino Marini); bundled in the apps.

5.3.0OFL-1.1

Cinzel (via @fontsource/cinzel)

Engraved-capital country names and distance counter on the Treasure Map (by Natanael Gama); bundled in the apps.

5.3.0OFL-1.1

Basis Universal transcoder

KTX2 texture transcoding for compressed globe textures.

three.js 0.182.0 distributionApache-2.0

@tmcw/togeojson

Reads GPX and KML route files imported in the mobile app.

7.1.2BSD-2-Clause

Distribution And Vendored Asset Provenance

These records identify browser-loaded or app-origin copies of third-party export, Earth texture, and texture-transcoding assets used by Boba Globe.

Terrain 3D streamed terrain

Elevation and bathymetry stream at runtime from the AWS Open Data Terrain Tiles dataset, compiled by Mapzen from SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1, NED, Copernicus and other open sources listed in its attribution. Draped borders come from the existing Natural Earth world-atlas data. The bundled climate lookup is derived from NASA Blue Marble mosaics by scripts/build-relief-climate.ts; its colours never reach the screen. Sea, lakes and rivers come from the sources below. Boba Globe authors the palette, hillshade and exaggerated relief.

AWS Open Data Terrain Tiles (Terrarium encoding); Natural Earth country borders via world-atlas; NASA Blue Marble Next Generation April/July climate hintsVarious open elevation licenses (see Terrain Tiles attribution) / public domain

App-Origin Paths

  • /terrain3d/climate.png
  • /terrain3d/water.png
  • /terrain3d/thumb.jpg
  • /terrain3d/thumb-*.jpg

Terrain 3D coastlines (OpenStreetMap water polygons)

Where Terrain 3D maps draw sea and land (bays, estuaries, lagoons, fjords and straits) comes from OpenStreetMap's coastline, via the water polygons published by osmdata.openstreetmap.de. scripts/build-coast-tiles.ts turns them into signed-distance coast tiles on the terrain grid, which Boba Globe serves from its own asset CDN (the whole-globe level ships in the app), and rebuilds the sea channel of /terrain3d/water.png from the same polygons.

osmdata.openstreetmap.de water polygons (split, EPSG:3857), downloaded September 29, 2026; coast tiles build osm-20260930-v3OpenStreetMap data ODbL-1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)

App-Origin Paths

  • /terrain3d/coast/2/*/*.png
  • /terrain3d/water.png

Terrain 3D lakes and rivers (HydroLAKES, GRWL)

Terrain 3D maps draw lakes and reservoirs from HydroLAKES (Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016): Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach. Nature Communications 7: 13603), including each lake's surface level, and wide rivers, tidal rivers and canals from the Global River Widths from Landsat (GRWL) database (Allen, G.H., Pavelsky, T.M. (2018): Global extent of rivers and streams. Science 361: 585-588). scripts/coast/build_inland_water.py rasterizes both and scripts/build-coast-tiles.ts adds them to the coast tiles' inland channel and the lake channel of /terrain3d/water.png. Modified (rasterized, resampled and encoded as distance fields) by Boba Globe.

HydroLAKES v1.0 polygons (lakes of 0.25 km² and more); GRWL water mask v01.01; coast tiles build osm-20260930-v3CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

App-Origin Paths

  • /terrain3d/coast/2/*/*.png
  • /terrain3d/water.png

Night Lights city lights (NASA Black Marble 2016)

The Night Lights map's city lights derive from NASA Earth Observatory's Black Marble 2016 global composite (images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center). scripts/build-night-lights.ts keeps only the lights (removing the composite's moonlit ground) and splits them into four greyscale quarters; the dark ground, relief and colours are Boba Globe's. NASA does not endorse Boba Globe. Credit is given here; exports carry no texture credit, as with the other NASA imagery.

Earth at Night 2016 global composite, 3 km; lights extracted to 8192 x 4096 greyscale September 29, 2026Public domain (NASA media usage guidance)

App-Origin Paths

  • /terrain3d/night/west-north.jpg
  • /terrain3d/night/east-north.jpg
  • /terrain3d/night/west-south.jpg
  • /terrain3d/night/east-south.jpg
  • /terrain3d/thumb-terrainNight.jpg

Realistic Earth sharp clouds (NASA Blue Marble 2002 clouds, 1 km)

The Realistic Earth map streams sharp clouds around each journey from NASA's Blue Marble 2002 cloud composite at about 1 km (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, image by Reto Stöckli; MODIS data). scripts/clouds/build_cloud_tiles.py lightly despeckles, resizes and tiles it, and Boba Globe serves the tiles from its own asset CDN (cloud-tiles/bm-clouds-2002-v1). The shading, softening and colours are Boba Globe's; offline, the installed cloud map listed under the NASA Blue Marble texture distribution draws instead. NASA does not endorse Boba Globe. Credit is given here; exports carry no texture credit, as with the other NASA imagery.

cloud.W/E.2001210.21600x21600 (43200 x 21600); tiled as bm-clouds-2002-v1, September 30, 2026Public domain (NASA media usage guidance)

App-Origin Paths

  • /terrain3d/thumb-terrainRealEarth.jpg

ESA WorldCover 2021 Sentinel-2 composite (satellite tiles)

© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium. Boba Globe colour grades the 10 m median composite, tones water to NASA Blue Marble, reprojects it to Web Mercator and serves it as map tiles from its own CDN. The Blue Marble map streams them over its NASA imagery in close views; ocean, Antarctica and anything outside a build stay NASA Blue Marble Next Generation, courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. While the tiles are on screen the map shows, and every export burns in, "Imagery © ESA WorldCover 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-2 · NASA". ESA and the European Commission do not endorse Boba Globe.

WorldCover v200 S2 RGBNIR median composite 2021; Boba builds s2-2021-pilot (Italy and Dalmatia, SF Bay Area, Tokyo) and s2-2021-v1CC BY 4.0

Roads and Hybrid street maps (OpenStreetMap via Protomaps)

Boba Globe renders its own raster street-map tiles from a Protomaps build of OpenStreetMap (with Natural Earth at the lowest zooms) using MapLibre Native and the @protomaps/basemaps layer definitions in Boba's colours, and serves them from its own asset CDN. The Roads map drapes them over Terrain 3D; Hybrid draws the roads-and-names layer over the bundled NASA Blue Marble imagery. The map shows, and every export burns in, "© OpenStreetMap contributors · Protomaps".

Protomaps planet build 20260927, zoom 0-11, rendered by Boba Globe (scripts/render-osm-tiles.ts)OpenStreetMap data ODbL-1.0; Protomaps basemap layers BSD-3-Clause; glyphs from Noto Sans (OFL-1.1)

Eurostat SeaRoute maritime network (marnet_plus 20 km)

Shipping-lane graph bundled unmodified in the mobile app and loaded only when a sea route is requested. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Global Shipping Lane Network enriched with European AIS data by Eurostat.

searoute v3.5, bundled by searoute-ts 2.3.0EUPL-1.2

App-Origin Paths

  • node_modules/searoute-ts/dist/data/marnet-20km.cjs

@ffmpeg/core browser distribution

Browser-loaded fallback export core fetched from the pinned unpkg package URLs only when WebCodecs export is unavailable and NEXT_PUBLIC_FFMPEG_FALLBACK_ENABLED=true.

0.12.9GPL-2.0-or-later

@ffmpeg/ffmpeg vendored wrapper

Copied from @ffmpeg/[email protected]/dist/umd and served from the app origin so the classic worker can start under COOP/COEP isolation.

0.12.15MIT

App-Origin Paths

  • /vendor/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.js
  • /vendor/ffmpeg/814.ffmpeg.js
  • /vendor/ffmpeg/README.md
  • /vendor/ffmpeg/NOTICE.md

Basis Universal transcoder

Copied from three.js examples/jsm/libs/basis for KTX2 texture transcoding of compressed globe textures.

three.js 0.182.0 examples distributionApache-2.0

App-Origin Paths

  • /basis/basis_transcoder.js
  • /basis/basis_transcoder.wasm
  • /basis/NOTICE.md

NASA Blue Marble Earth texture distribution

Earth imagery courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The default and seasonal daymaps derive directly from NASA Blue Marble Next Generation topography and bathymetry composites. Clouds (the classic globes' layer and the drifting clouds over Terrain 3D maps) derive directly from NASA Blue Marble 2002, image by Reto Stöckli. Boba Globe resizes and encodes these images for globe rendering, compressed previews, and offline mobile tiles. NASA does not endorse Boba Globe. Texture acknowledgments are provided here; exports do not add a texture credit overlay or require a caption.

Default and clouds replaced September 20, 2026NASA media usage guidance

App-Origin Paths

  • /textures/earth_nasa_july_8k.jpg
  • /textures/earth_nasa_july_8k.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_texture_spring.jpg
  • /textures/earth_texture_spring.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_texture_summer.jpg
  • /textures/earth_texture_summer.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_texture_autumn.jpg
  • /textures/earth_texture_autumn.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_texture_winter.jpg
  • /textures/earth_texture_winter.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_texture_deep_winter.jpg
  • /textures/earth_texture_deep_winter.ktx2
  • /textures/earth_nasa_clouds_8k.jpg
  • /textures/earth_nasa_clouds_8k.ktx2
  • /textures/README.md