Credits & data sources
Waypoint is built on open data and open software. This page names every source and the licence it comes with — last updated 11 September 2026. Waypoint itself is an unofficial, private project; see the Impressum.
Infinite Flight
Live flights, controllers and ATIS come from the official Infinite Flight Live API by Flying Development Studio LLC. Waypoint is not affiliated with Infinite Flight; "Infinite Flight" is a trademark of its owners. Live data is never stored (only shown), following Infinite Flight's API terms.
Map
OpenFreeMaptiles: free · data ODbLVector tiles in the OpenMapTiles schema, © OpenMapTiles · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
CARTO basemap stylesstyle © CARTODark Matter, Positron and Voyager looks; raster fallbacks © CARTO © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Esri World Imagery© Esri, Maxar, Earthstar GeographicsSatellite view.
Terrain Tiles (Tilezen / AWS Open Data)various open licences3D terrain. ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736; Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017; Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich; Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union – EU-DEM layers; Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016; New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved); Norway terrain data © Kartverket; United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved; United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
RainViewerradar © RainViewerWeather radar layer.
Natural Earthpublic domainLand masses on tour cards and small maps.
MapLibre GL JSBSD-3-ClauseThe map engine; Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause) for the 2D fallback.
Airports, navigation and airspace
OurAirportspublic domainAirports, runways, frequencies and navaids.
X-Plane legacy navigation dataGPL v3Fixes and airways (data cycle 2012.08), for display only. Our derived files are served openly under /nav/; the conversion script is part of Waypoint's source and available on request.
X-Plane Scenery GatewayGPL · © Robin A. PeelGate and taxiway data, together with the Infinite Flight Airport Editing project (GPL v2). Ground layouts © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). The derived gate file is available on request under the same licence.
VAT-Spy Data ProjectCC BY-SA 4.0FIR and centre boundaries. Shown, not redistributed; any derived boundary file we publish stays CC BY-SA 4.0.
FAAUS government workInstrument charts (d-TPP) and NOTAMs.
OpenStreetMap via OverpassODbL 1.0Airport ground layouts.
Weather
NOAA / National Weather ServiceUS government workMETAR, TAF, SIGMET, winds and clouds aloft (GFS via NOMADS), hurricanes (NHC).
Japan Meteorological AgencyJMA termsTyphoon advisories.
Joint Typhoon Warning CenterUS government workTropical cyclone warnings.
Real-world flights and aircraft
adsb.lolODbL 1.0Real-world ADS-B positions and history. Data © adsb.lol contributors; anything derived from it (the Route Builder's observations, exports) carries this attribution.
OpenSky Network aircraft databaseCC BY 4.0Aircraft registrations, types and operators.
VRS standing dataCC0Route table used by the Route Builder.
Bureau of Transportation StatisticsUS government workOfficial US airline schedules.
AeroDataBoxcommercial API, cached ≤ 7 daysSchedules, airport boards, aircraft details and airline route maps behind the Route Builder and the real-world panels.
AirLabscommercial APIAirline networks and codeshares for the Route Builder.
Models, fonts and software
3D aircraft modelsCC BY© hikami3150, arya.g.winarto, superlitmariogaming, ideehochzwei — via Sketchfab. Aircraft icons and low-poly planes on the map are Waypoint's own.
Google FontsSIL Open Font LicenseServed from Waypoint's own server, never from Google, so no visitor data reaches Google.
Waypoint is built with Next.js, React, MapLibre, three.js, sharp, Leaflet and many other open-source libraries under MIT, BSD and Apache licences; their notices ship with the software.
Your content
Photos, videos and profiles on Contrail, in the galleries and on airline pages belong to the pilots who posted them, under the licence in the terms of use. Airline names, logos and liveries on Waypoint identify virtual airlines in Infinite Flight, not real carriers.