{
  "title": "Five-stop road-trip map demonstration: source credits",
  "checkedOn": "2026-10-26",
  "scope": "Only road-trip-five-stops.mp4 and road-trip-five-stops-poster.webp. This does not license hosted exports, software, user media or other movies.",
  "adaptationCredit": "AlbumMap, 2026. Geographic renderer adapted from Geographical Adventures by Sebastian Lague, using the named imagery and data sources.",
  "adaptationLicence": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic",
  "adaptationLicenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/",
  "reuse": "Keep the creators, source links, licence and change notes with copies. Identify your changes and follow the applicable ShareAlike terms. Public-domain inputs retain their status. The separate data-source notices and other rights remain applicable; no upstream endorsement is implied.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "component": "Renderer foundation",
      "creator": "Sebastian Lague and Geographical Adventures contributors",
      "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures",
      "licence": "MIT software licence; Copyright (c) 2024 Sebastian Lague",
      "licenceUrl": "https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures/blob/main/LICENSE",
      "changes": "Local map-video recorder and editorial sequence. The software licence is distinct from the source-data licences. No Unity project or software binary is included in this pack."
    },
    {
      "component": "Land colour and terrain",
      "creator": "NASA Visible Earth / NASA Earth Observatory",
      "sourceUrl": "https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/73934/topography",
      "currentSourceUrl": "https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/blue-marble-next-generation/topography-bathymetry-maps/",
      "licence": "NASA media usage guidelines; source credit retained",
      "licenceUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/",
      "changes": "The upstream renderer maps colour textures onto a globe and modifies terrain height, including reducing some small-island heights. Camera, shading and rendering further transform the display.",
      "sourcePrecision": "The upstream project credits NASA for land colour and topography. Its height-source note names this collection. An exact observation date or edition for each local texture is not supplied, and no current satellite view is claimed."
    },
    {
      "component": "City-light texture",
      "creator": "NASA Earth Observatory",
      "sourceUrl": "https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NightLights",
      "licenceUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/",
      "sourcePrecision": "Declared in the upstream credit menu and local source note; the actual texture is bound in the terrain material. The old article URL now redirects to the general Earth Observatory section, so it does not establish a specific dataset edition. The example uses always-daylight framing."
    },
    {
      "component": "Country shapes and city-location data",
      "creator": "Natural Earth contributors",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/",
      "licence": "Public domain",
      "licenceUrl": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/",
      "changes": "Natural Earth geographic information is incorporated into the globe renderer. Approximate city locators for this teaching sequence are disclosed in road-trip-five-stops-settings.json; no recorded itinerary is claimed."
    },
    {
      "component": "Country flag pictures",
      "creator": "Flagpedia.net / Wikimedia Commons contributors",
      "sourceUrl": "https://flagpedia.net/download",
      "licence": "Flagpedia public-domain download terms",
      "licenceUrl": "https://flagpedia.net/download",
      "changes": "Country flags are disabled in this example."
    },
    {
      "component": "Star field",
      "creator": "David Nash / Astronomy Nexus",
      "title": "HYG star database, version 3 family",
      "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/astronexus/HYG-Database",
      "versionLicenceUrl": "https://github.com/astronexus/HYG-Database/blob/main/hyg/README.md",
      "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic",
      "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/",
      "changes": "The renderer omits the Sun, selects 8,912 stars of magnitude at most 6.5, converts right ascension and declination to directions, normalizes brightness and applies a colour gradient. The visible star field is a rendered adaptation.",
      "localSourceSha256": "039fdcdcfc31968c6938863ac1d293854ba810bbfa0bcd72b1f4cc2d544f3d08",
      "sourcePrecision": "Version-specific terms for HYG 2.x/3.x are used. The repository current-version 4.0 licence is not substituted for the local version 3 data."
    },
    {
      "component": "Rendered city-label lettering",
      "creator": "The Montserrat.Git Project Authors",
      "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat",
      "licence": "SIL Open Font License 1.1",
      "licenceUrl": "https://openfontlicense.org/",
      "changes": "City names are rasterized into the movie. No font file is included. The OFL document-output exception preserves the separate status of the font software."
    },
    {
      "component": "Numbered marker lettering",
      "creator": "Microsoft Arial and Segoe UI",
      "sourceUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq",
      "changes": "Original numbered badges and external text cards are rasterized on Windows. No font file or reusable character font is distributed."
    }
  ],
  "examples": [
    {
      "articleCreditLabel": "Fictional five-stop road-trip map",
      "changes": "New five-city sequence, camera framing and numbered badges. All 31 recorder source files matched the installed local project before rendering. No vehicles, uploaded photographs or narration are included.",
      "media": [
        {
          "file": "road-trip-five-stops.mp4",
          "bytes": 11709221,
          "sha256": "3327705e27e0f796a8dbae49acd9987fbc3c9fc3335d1414505cef119863d017"
        },
        {
          "file": "road-trip-five-stops-poster.webp",
          "bytes": 61256,
          "sha256": "6d35c815e4292df92eee10c500655b7d879be0b016cd31d2327c08b5b3d01aaa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}