Data sources and acknowledgements
The hazards on the map come from the people who use Swoop. Everything underneath them comes from somebody else, and this page says who.
The reports
Every swoop, snake, lizard, midge, nest, dog and path hazard on the map was reported by a person who saw it, and is confirmed or cleared by the people who pass it. The first ones go in by hand, from our own walks and from what friends tell us directly, so the map has something to show on day one. No report on the map is copied from another website or service, and we do not scrape anyone.
OpenStreetMap
Routes are computed over road and path data from OpenStreetMap, which is © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database Licence. Whether a street is lit after dark, which the "Lit" percentage on a night route reports, is read from OpenStreetMap's lighting tags and street-lamp positions; it is as complete as the people who mapped Brisbane have made it, and the app says so under the percentage: "Lighting from OpenStreetMap, may be out of date". If a lit street shows as unlit, or a path is missing, the fix is to improve the map, and everyone benefits.
Valhalla
The routes themselves are planned by Valhalla, an open-source routing engine (MIT licence), which we run ourselves and have asked to steer around what has been reported. Elevation along a route comes from the public elevation tiles Valhalla builds from.
Apple Maps
The map you look at, the search for a destination and the route used when our routing service cannot be reached (labelled "not avoid-aware" in the app) come from Apple Maps, under Apple's terms.
Brisbane City Council
Council's published advice on swooping season - that native birds swoop from July to December, that magpies peak from August to November, that each bird swoops for about six weeks - is where the app's default territory lifespan and its "Peak Swooping Season" label on the map come from. No dataset from Brisbane City Council's open data is in the app today; if one is used, it will be credited here under its licence.
Atlas of Living Australia
If species records from the Atlas of Living Australia are used in a future version, to say which species are seen in which suburbs, they will be credited here and in the app, under the licence each record carries (typically Creative Commons Attribution). Nothing from the Atlas is in the app today.
The creatures
The birds, snakes and lizards drawn on the map are our own renders, made for Swoop. They are stylised: a magpie on the map is a symbol for "a magpie was reported here", not a field guide, and species names come from the person who reported, who may be wrong.
Hosting
The reports are stored with Supabase in Sydney; the routing service runs on Railway in the United States; these pages are served by GitHub Pages. The privacy policy says what each of them sees.
Missing an attribution you are owed? Write to swoop@edacity.com.au and we will add it.