Loam

Attributions

Effective October 13, 2026

Loam stands on other people's work: open map data, public elevation and weather data, and open-source software. Thank you to all of them.

Data

SourceUsed forLicense
OpenStreetMap contributorsTrails, roads, names, surface and access tags; the routing networkODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors. OSM-derived data Loam publishes is available under the ODbL on request.
CARTO basemapsThe map backgroundBasemap tiles © CARTO, using OpenStreetMap data
USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)Elevation and climb figuresPublic domain (US Government work)
PAD-US (USGS GAP)Public land boundariesPublic domain (US Government work)
OpenTrailMap and the Overpass APITrail details drawn from OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap data under the ODbL
Photon by komootPlace searchOpenStreetMap data under the ODbL; service by komoot
National Weather Service (api.weather.gov)ForecastsPublic domain (US Government work)

Software

SoftwareUsed forLicense
GraphHopperRoute findingApache-2.0
MapLibre GL JSThe mapBSD-3-Clause
Firebase (Authentication and Hosting)Sign-in and hostingApache-2.0 (client library)
Atkinson Hyperlegible, by the Braille InstituteThe app's typeface, loaded from Google Fonts (not bundled)SIL Open Font License 1.1

Everything else

The full list of web and server packages Loam ships or runs on, with versions and licenses, is in third-party.txt. It is generated from the project's lock file and installed packages by scripts/gen_third_party_licenses.py.

Loam itself

Loam's own source code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. The complete source is at github.com/JJRPF/loam.

Questions: jjrpfister at gmail dot com.