Third-Party-Notices & Data Credits

This page includes required attributions for permissively licensed components and the external data sources used by Earth View. It is provided for transparency and convenience and does not replace any third-party terms.

Notice

This notice applies to The Earth Shack Software LLC software product EarthView (the “Software”). The Software includes or interacts with third-party software components and online data services. Those third parties own their respective rights, and their terms govern your use. Availability, licensing, and rate limits for external services may change at any time.

Third-Party Software Components (Included)

  • satellite.js — SGP4 propagation and coordinate transforms.
    License: MIT Copyright: © 2013 Shashwat Kandadai, UCSC, and contributors.

Third-Party Data Sources & Online Services (Runtime)

EarthView may fetch data from third-party services at runtime. These services are not bundled with the Software. Data is displayed directly in the user’s browser and is not redistributed. You are responsible for complying with any applicable third-party terms.

  • MET Norway (met.no) — Locationforecast 2.0 compact forecast endpoint (used for local QTH conditions). Subject to provider terms and rate limits.
  • NOAA / National Weather Service (NWS) — Weather alerts and public bulletins (api.weather.gov). Generally public domain; attribution requested. Do not imply endorsement or present modified content as official.
  • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) — Earthquake feeds and volcano catalog. Generally public domain; attribution requested.
  • CelesTrak (TLE/OMM) — Orbital elements for ISS, Tiangong, and amateur satellites. Data provided by CelesTrak and/or upstream providers; subject to their terms. If exporting or redistributing orbital elements, verify applicable source terms.

Included Map / Geodata

  • Natural Earth — Base map components used for world-map rendering. License: Public Domain.
  • Tectonic Plate Boundaries — Derived from PB2002 (Peter Bird, 2003) and distributed via the fraxen/tectonicplates dataset. License: Open Data Commons Attribution (ODC-By 1.0).

MIT License (Applies to Included Components Listed Above)

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Trademarks

“The Earth Shack Software” and “EarthView” are trademarks of The Earth Shack Software LLC.

NOAA, NWS, USGS, and other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Use of third-party marks is for identification only and does not imply endorsement.

External data sources may be subject to additional terms. If you plan to export, redistribute, or use these data outside of Earth View, you are responsible for complying with those terms.

Questions

If you believe any credit is missing or incorrect, please contact us via the Contact page so we can correct it.

Data Sources & Credits (Detailed)

EarthView combines public and curated sources. External feeds are used “as is” and may be delayed or unavailable. Do not use for safety-critical decision making.

Earthquake Data

  • United States Geological Survey (USGS) — FDSN Event Web Service, GeoJSON (24-hour window).

ISS & Tiangong Position

  • Propagated on-device from Two-Line Element (TLE) data using satellite.js (SGP4). TLEs refresh from CelesTrak when available.

Tectonic Plate Boundaries

  • PB2002 plate boundary dataset (Peter Bird), packaged via the community tectonicplates GeoJSON repository.

Day/Night Terminator

  • Computed on-device from astronomical formulas (no external API call).

QTH Weather

  • MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0 (“met.no”) compact forecast endpoint.

Weather Alerts (QTH)

  • U.S. National Weather Service API (api.weather.gov) — active alerts by point.

World Clocks

  • Rendered locally using IANA time zones via the browser’s Intl APIs.

Volcano Locations

  • USGS-supplied list of volcanoes from the USGS catalog.

Volcano List

  • Curated list of interesting volcanoes maintained by The Earth Shack Software LLC.

Ham Satellites (SAT 1 / SAT 2) Orbital Elements

  • TLE data fetched from CelesTrak (amateur group) when available and propagated in-browser using satellite.js.