Credits

The data, imagery, fonts and software this site shows or depends on, with the attribution each one asks for.

Maps and terrain

The Denver film and clip. Map: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (openmaptiles.org; design CC BY 4.0), data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL — openstreetmap.org/copyright. Style: OSM Liberty. Terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles via AWS Open Data (registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles); sources:

* 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.

From the tilezen/joerd attribution page.

Seaglass Globe screenshot. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles (AWS Open Data); terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Shown on the Seaglass Globe page.

Elevation and satellite data

Cop30 DEM contains modified Copernicus DEM data © DLR e.V. 2010–2014, Airbus DS GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

Sentinel-2 L2A contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, ESA.

Shown in the ForgeGIS comparison with GDAL, its stills and the side-by-side film.

Ground layer

Ground: Natural Earth (public domain). The ForgeGIS Studio ground layer in the home page clip is labelled with it. Natural Earth is free vector and raster map data at naturalearthdata.com; its terms put all of it in the public domain, so no credit is required and this one is given as a courtesy.

Shown in the ForgeGIS hero clip on the home page.

Software and fonts

  • GDAL is open-source software developed by the GDAL/OGR Project under an MIT-style licence. ForgeGIS is checked against it.
  • Type in the Seaglass Globe application: JetBrains Mono, SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Worldwind Reforged is released as open source under the Apache License 2.0. It is an independent community modernization and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.
  • The suite’s installer carries the third-party notices, with every licence text in full.

Trademarks

Seaglass Control Center™, ForgeGIS™, ForgeGIS Studio™, ForgeMind™, ForgeData™, ForgeRelay™, Seaglass Globe™, SwingToPDF™ and Seaglass Foundry™ are trademarks of Seaglass Foundry LLC.

GDAL, NVIDIA, Intel, Copernicus, Sentinel, OpenStreetMap, JetBrains Mono, GeographicLib, Rust, wgpu, Vulkan, DirectX, Windows, WebView2, Java, Maven, Apache PDFBox, NASA WorldWind, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, Ollama, PostGIS, GeoPackage, the Model Context Protocol and other third-party products and marks referenced on this site are the property of their respective owners. Reference to these marks does not imply endorsement.