Data sources and licenses

Base maps and imagery

• Street, OSM and Dark maps. Vector tiles from OpenFreeMap using the OpenMapTiles schema, drawn from OpenStreetMap data. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). © OpenMapTiles.
• Satellite and Topo. U.S. Geological Survey, The National Map imagery and topographic base maps. USGS information is in the U.S. public domain; credit: U.S. Geological Survey.
• Satellite HD (paid plans, where offered). Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and their partners, used under Esri's terms of use through the ArcGIS Location Platform.

Place search and routing

• Place and address search. OpenStreetMap Nominatim. Results are © OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODbL and are requested under the Nominatim usage policy.
• Routing (where enabled). Valhalla routing engine with OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Public data layers

Most layers stream live from the agency that publishes them, and each keeps its publisher, date and source link. Works of the U.S. federal government are generally in the public domain, but some datasets carry their own use constraints, which LandDraft follows and shows in the layer details. Sources include:

• Federal. U.S. Geological Survey (including The National Map, 3DEP elevation, National Hydrography, PAD-US and geologic maps), FEMA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Energy Information Administration, National Park Service, the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
• Texas. Texas Geographic Information Office (TxGIO, including StratMap land parcels compiled from county appraisal districts), Texas Water Development Board, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and other state agencies.
• Railroad Commission of Texas. Oil and gas wells, permits and pipelines are public records of the Railroad Commission of Texas. The Commission's site policy allows its data to be copied for noncommercial purposes. LandDraft shows these records for reference and has asked the Commission for permission for commercial use; the Oil & Gas (Texas) module will not be sold until that is settled.

A state or local publisher's terms apply to its data wherever it appears, including in your exports and prints. Check the source's terms before you redistribute it.

Weather

• NOAA and the National Weather Service. Radar (MRMS), forecasts, watches and warnings, Storm Prediction Center and Weather Prediction Center products, and nowCOAST services. NOAA data is in the U.S. public domain. LandDraft visualizations are not endorsed by NOAA.
• Lightning. Lightning strike density from the NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center via nowCOAST, derived from the Vaisala GLD360 and NLDN networks. NOAA describes this gridded product as approved for public distribution. The underlying data belongs to Vaisala, not NOAA, so the lightning layer stays off in LandDraft until commercial use is confirmed.
• Storm reports. NOAA/NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University.
• MET Norway. Forecast data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, licensed under CC BY 4.0; LandDraft may show derived analysis of it.

LandDraft AI

Assistant answers are generated by a third-party AI inference provider (currently Groq) through LandDraft's server. AI answers can be wrong; check anything important against the source data. See the privacy policy for what is sent.

Open-source software

LandDraft is built with open-source software, including MapLibre GL JS, React, TanStack, Turf, JSTS, proj4 and many others. Their copyright notices and license texts are reproduced in full in the open-source notices and the radar component notices.

Trademarks and corrections

Agency names are used only to credit their data and do not mean any agency endorses LandDraft. If you publish data shown here and want its credit or terms changed, or the layer removed, please contact us.