Where our data comes from
Every number on Check the Beach comes from a public source. Each one is listed here with its license. Conditions show how old they are, so you can tell a fresh reading from a stale one.
- Curated seed record
- Original. Curated by Check the Beach.
- Open-Meteo
- CC BY 4.0. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com.
- Open-Meteo Marine
- CC BY 4.0. Marine data by Open-Meteo.com.
- OpenStreetMap
- ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Data we derive from it is shared under the same license.
- Owner-shared public streams
- Public player the owner shares on a cam-hosting service; credited and linked; removed the same day on request. Cam by the owner, linked to the owner page.
- U.S. National Weather Service
- Public domain. NOAA National Weather Service.
- Wikidata
- CC0 1.0. Wikidata.
- Wikimedia Commons
- CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or public domain, per file. Photo credit and license are shown with each image.
- Windy.com Webcams
- Windy Webcams API terms of use. Webcams provided by windy.com.
- YouTube
- YouTube API Services Terms; embedded with the YouTube player. Each cam credits its YouTube channel and links to the video.
Live cams
Cams are embedded with their provider’s own player and load only when you press play. We store each cam’s ID, title and owner, never its images.
- YouTube API Services
- Live beach streams found and checked with the YouTube Data API, under theYouTube Terms of Service. Each cam credits its channel and links to the video on YouTube.
- Windy.com Webcams
- Webcams provided by windy.com. Used under the Windy Webcams API terms.
- Cam owners
- Cams their owners list with us, credited and linked next to the cam. List yours.
Photos
Beach photos are linked from their sources and credited with the author, license and a link to the original. Sources are Wikimedia Commons, Openverse,Flickr (only photos under Creative Commons licenses that allow commercial use, or in the public domain), Pexels (Pexels License) and Unsplash(Unsplash License). This product uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by SmugMug, Inc.
Wikipedia excerpts
Where a beach has an English Wikipedia article, its page shows the first paragraph or two as a quotation marked “From Wikipedia”, with a link to the article and to its page history, which lists the authors. Wikipedia text is available under theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). We only cut quotations at a sentence boundary, so the text may have been shortened, and we leave the wording as it is. We skip sentences that make safety or water-quality claims. Our own short introduction above the quotation is written from the facts listed on the page, not from Wikipedia’s text.
Share-alike means that if you copy or adapt the quoted Wikipedia text, you must give the same credit and release your version under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license. That applies to the quoted passages only, not to the rest of the page. We fetch the text with a descriptive user agent that points to this page.
Translated excerpts
Italian, French, German and Dutch beaches often have no English article. Where the beach has an article in the local-language Wikipedia of its country and none in English, we show the first paragraph or two, translated into English by a machine (a language model running on our own computer), under the heading “Translated from Italian Wikipedia” (or French, German, Dutch). Each one links to the original article, its page history (the authors) and the exact revision we used, and offers the original-language text. The translation is machine-made, may contain errors, and may be shortened; we check that numbers and proper names carry over, skip sentences that make safety or water-quality claims, and drop any translation that fails those checks.
A translation is an adaptation of the Wikipedia text, so share-alike applies to the translated text too: you may reuse it under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license, with credit to the Wikipedia authors of the original article and a note that it was translated and may have been shortened. As with the English quotations, that covers the quoted passage only, not the rest of the page.
Corrections
Spot something wrong, like a beach that allows dogs or a lot that now charges for parking? Emailhello@checkthebeach.com with the beach name and what changed.