Legal notices
The MapScale Atlas combines maps and data from the providers below. Their copyright notices and licences are listed here, the way a map app lists them.
Maps and imagery
- MapScale
© mapscale.io. Map styles, vector tiles, geocoding and the Atlas software.
Licence: MapScale terms of use
- OpenStreetMap
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Roads, buildings, places and other base map data.
Licence: Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0
- GeoNames
City and place names from the GeoNames gazetteer (geonames.org).
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Esri imagery (ArcGIS Location Platform)
Powered by Esri. Imagery: Esri, Vantor, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community. Shown on the satellite map.
Licence: Esri terms of use and attribution
- GISTDA 2 m satellite mosaic
GISTDA orthorectified satellite mosaic for Thailand. The official catalogue labels this dataset Open Data Common (G0). Government Catalog guidance permits use, copying, distribution and adaptation, including commercial use. Imagery dates vary across the mosaic; the catalogue release date is not a tile acquisition date. Source: opendata.gistda.or.th/en/dataset/2-gistda. License definition: gdhelppage.gdcatalog.go.th/p00_03_new7.html.
Licence: Open Data Common (Thai Government Catalog G0); registered gateway access
- ESA WorldCover Sentinel-2 2021 annual RGB composite
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by the ESA WorldCover consortium / VITO. Annual median RGB composite, displayed at a reduced resolution; original imagery is 10 m. This is an annual composite, not a live image.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Terrain
Terrain © Mapzen, USGS, NASA SRTM and other contributors. Used for 3D relief.
Licence: Public domain and open licences, as published by each contributor
Data sources
Every dataset an Atlas layer draws on, grouped by topic, with the publisher's licence as we recorded it.
Agriculture
- Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) crop production by province (catalog.oae.go.th)
Licence: Open Data Common for these six; many other OAE crops are CC BY-NC
- IFPRI SPAM 2020 v2r2 (Harvard Dataverse doi:10.7910/DVN/SWPENT)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (commercial use allowed)
- ESA WorldCover 2021 v200 (10 m land cover)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- Wang et al. 2023, Nature: high-resolution maps of rubber and rubber-related deforestation for Southeast Asia (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.8425153)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- Descals et al. 2024, ESSD: global oil palm extent and planting year 1990 to 2021 (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.13379129)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- HDX tha-ndvi-subnational (NASA MODIS aggregated by WFP / FAO)
Licence: CC BY
Air
- Pollution Control Department (Air4Thai) live stations and OpenAQ archive
Licence: Thai Open Data Common; OpenAQ open
- NASA FIRMS (VIIRS 375 m active fires / hotspots)
Licence: NASA open data
Base data
- OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, MapScale tiles (Thailand pmtiles)
Licence: ODbL 1.0
- GeoNames cities1000 gazetteer
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- MapScale API (intelligence layers, camera catalogue, geocoding)
Licence: MapScale terms; each layer carries its own upstream licence
- Esri World Imagery via ArcGIS Location Platform (ibasemaps-api.arcgis.com, API key)
Licence: Esri Master License Agreement via ArcGIS Location Platform; commercial public apps allowed; 'Powered by Esri' + data credit required
- OpenRouter language model (Ask Atlas chat)
Licence: OpenRouter and model provider terms; key required
Base map
- GISTDA 2 m imagery / basemap
Licence: Open Data Common stated in source guide; API/bulk terms confirm
- GISTDA GeoTwin 3D Tiles
Licence: Licence unspecified in source guide
Business
- Department of Industrial Works (DIW) factory location registry, data.go.th a4e85b60
Licence: Open Data Common
- Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) estate pages + OpenStreetMap industrial-estate footprints
Licence: Creative Commons Attributions (data.go.th listing); ODbL for OSM boundaries
- Department of Business Development (DBD) new company registrations, dataset_11_01
Licence: Open Data Common
- NESDC Gross Regional and Provincial Product reports (editions 2564 and 2566)
Licence: NESDC statistical publication (catalogued as Open Data Common); citation requested
Climate
- National coast model: GEDTM30, EOT20 tides, IPCC AR6, Davydzenka 2024 subsidence, ESA WorldCover
Licence: CC BY 4.0 for every input; EGM2008/MSL datum offsets are facts
Coastal
- GISTDA Coastal Radar, NOAA marine forecasts, DMCR candidates
Licence: Provider-specific rights
Economy
- DBD DataWarehouse / commercial registry products
Licence: Terms/privacy and bulk reuse rights need legal review
- Ministry of Labour minimum wage; NSO household economics
Licence: Per dataset; selected source can have data.go.th licence
Environment
- Pollution Control Department (PCD) monitoring stations
Licence: Open Data Common (PCD annual CSV); original Noise4Thai station metadata
- GISTDA/RTSD/DGR/CORS and InSAR datasets
Licence: Dataset-specific licence; reference benchmarks required
Events
- DDPM, TMD warning bulletins, official agency incident feeds
Licence: Provider-specific API and reuse terms
Flood
- BMA Floodboard, road-flood, canal monitoring
Licence: Owner permission noted for BMA monitoring/canal/road feeds on 2026-09-27 in attribution.ts
- Department of Water Resources (DWR) river stations/CCTV reports
Licence: Catalogue licence unspecified for CCTV-derived reports
- UNOSAT FL20210928THA
Licence: CC BY-SA per UNOSAT/HDX evidence recorded in code
- Copernicus CEMS GFM / EFAS / GloFAS
Licence: CEMS Floods licence applies; confirm exact product conditions
- Sentinel-1 / Copernicus Emergency Management products
Licence: Copernicus data policy/attribution; derived product rights vary
- GISTDA LiDAR/DEM; NASA ICESat-2; elevation grids
Licence: GISTDA product rights need per-resource confirmation; other source licences vary
- DWR flood/drought risk RAR/SHP
Licence: Catalogue licence unspecified per source guide
- Floodboard.org
Licence: Floodboard first-party about page states GeoJSON/CSV reuse is free to developers/media/government under CC BY 4.0; this stated licence applies to Floodboard ex…
Hazards
- Department of Mineral Resources sinkhole hazard polygons, karst outcrops and reported events
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution per the gdcatalog listing (variant unspecified, treat as CC BY); events: news facts only, OSM Nominatim ODbL for geocoding
- USGS Earthquake API
Licence: USGS public data; attribution per provider docs
- Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM)
Licence: Exact API/resource licence review
- NOAA NHC/CPHC tropical weather summaries
Licence: NOAA attribution/disclaimer; regional scope limits
- NOAA nowCOAST lightning; Vaisala-derived
Licence: Distribution permitted only for NOAA Level-5 derived product per vendor source docs
- USGS; TMD seismic feeds
Licence: Provider terms and attribution
Hydrology
- HII, RID SWOC, DWR, EGAT and BMA sensor networks
Licence: Resource terms differ; BMA permission recorded
Industry
- DIW factory register + OpenAQ/PCD air stations + NASA FIRMS
Licence: Each dataset's rights remain separate
Infrastructure
- EGAT water and power public data (including EGAT CCTV)
Licence: EGAT resource-specific terms
People
- WorldPop / HDX
Licence: Resource license per HDX; source guide describes datasets
- National Statistical Office (NSO) / data.go.th
Licence: CC BY for selected resources; direct NSO API previously returned 418
Property
- Treasury Department (กรมธนารักษ์) official land appraisal, catalog.treasury.go.th dataset land-valuation
Licence: Open Data Common (flagged no restriction); publisher updates every 4 years, files dated 2025-04 to 2026-05
- TPN public project directory (BaanMe) with Atlas flood grade
Licence: Proplink (own data)
Real estate
- Treasury condo/building/other-land valuations
Licence: Per-resource terms; encoding/schema review required
- National Housing Authority (NHA) project inventory
Licence: Resource-level licence/access review
Sea
- AISstream vessel telemetry (civil ships)
Licence: AISstream terms (key required)
Security
- adsb.lol /v2/mil (adsbdb military flag), adsb.fi fallback
Licence: ODbL 1.0
- AISstream, naval and law-enforcement subset (AIS type 35/55, navy name prefixes)
Licence: AISstream terms
- OpenStreetMap / Overture Maps military installations (Thailand and neighbours)
Licence: ODbL 1.0
- Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia lead images for military sites
Licence: Per file: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, public domain, GFDL or OGL only; others are dropped
Society
- HDX COD population (NSO 2010 census projected to 2023), CHIRPS rainfall, NOAA NCEI tsunami
Licence: CC BY-IGO (population); CC BY (CHIRPS/WFP); NOAA open
- DOPA village natural-resource survey (GD Catalog gdpublish-762)
Licence: Open Data Common per publisher catalog
Space
- CelesTrak
Licence: CelesTrak terms/attribution; confirm current access limits
- Public launch data provider (vendor Atlas route)
Licence: Provider and licensing need explicit source review
Transport
- iTIC Foundation "iTIC Motion" traffic cameras (camera feed on traffic.longdo.com/feed)
Licence: The feed is published on iTIC's own data-feed page; no licence is stated for cameras (the iTIC open-data archives are CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 but contain no cameras). iTIC credit and source link shown
- BMA Traffic and Transport Dept. traffic cameras (bmatraffic.com)
Licence: Public BMA site; footer says all rights reserved (no licence)
- Department of Highways traffic CCTV (highwaytraffic.go.th)
Licence: Public DOH website; no licence stated; DOH credit and source link shown
- adsb.lol / adsb.fi ADS-B (civil aircraft), adsbdb, planespotters.net; OpenSky (globe sidecar only)
Licence: ODbL 1.0 (adsb.lol, adsb.fi); adsbdb and planespotters per their terms; OpenSky terms
- SRT public timetable (railway.co.th/SRTTimetable), OTP Namtang GTFS (rail), BTS/MRT/ARL urban lines
Licence: SRT timetable: published facts, no licence stated; CC-BY (OTP Open Data); OpenStreetMap ODbL for track and stations
- OTP Namtang GTFS buses (namtang-api.otp.go.th)
Licence: Creative Commons CC-BY (OTP Open Data)
- Traffic density (OpenStreetMap road class + time of day)
Licence: ODbL 1.0 (road geometry)
- Ministry of Transport (datagov.mot.go.th) road accident records
Licence: Thai Open Data Common
Transportation
- TomTom Traffic
Licence: Commercial API terms/key
- Google Maps traffic snapshot
Licence: Restricted; written contract needed for continuous capture/use
- OpenStreetMap + Valhalla
Licence: ODbL with attribution; no redistributable bulk export absent share-alike review
- OpenStreetMap railway features
Licence: ODbL attribution
- Atlas transit gateway / provider-specific transit feeds
Licence: Provider contracts vary
- YouTube public live cameras
Licence: User confirmed all CCTV providers covered for public metadata/video with attribution and source links (Oct 1/2 conversation); no separate document inspected. R…
- Source camera catalogs + image/manual classification
Licence: User confirmed all CCTV providers covered for public metadata/video with attribution and source links (Oct 1/2 conversation); preserve source attribution/link
- MOPH RTIDC public road-safety hotspot map
Licence: Confirm map/data reuse terms before ingestion
- Expressway Authority of Thailand accident resource in MOT open-data catalog
Licence: Open Data Common per MOT catalog; source attribution retained
- Department of Rural Roads (DRR) CCTV
Licence: User authorization for all CCTV providers with attribution/source links (Oct 1/2); preserve publisher links.
- Department of Highways Highway Data Management System (HDMS)
Licence: Original public dashboard; commercial redistribution permission unverified, disabled by default
- Nonthaburi public CCTV portal
Licence: Public camera authorization with attribution/source links applies; preserve publisher source links
Water
- BMA Dept. of Drainage and Sewerage, FloodBangkok road and tunnel flood sensors
Licence: Public BMA open API; no licence stated
- BMA Dept. of Drainage and Sewerage, flood-watch camera catalogue
Licence: Public BMA open API; no licence stated
- Traffy Fondue public API (publicapi.traffy.in.th)
Licence: Public API (open data of Traffy Fondue / BMA); reports are unverified
- BMA DDS flooded main-road report (dds.bangkok.go.th/flood_report.php)
Licence: Public BMA page; no licence stated
- Nonthaburi City Municipality flood monitoring (182.52.224.70)
Licence: Public municipal website; no licence stated
- Royal Irrigation Department, RID IoT gate stations (ridiot.rid.go.th)
Licence: Public RID website; no licence stated
- ThaiWater / HII (api-v3.thaiwater.net)
Licence: Public Thai government data
- GISTDA flood extents (daily NE 2022, annual 2009-2014, 2021-22 events)
Licence: Thai government open data (GISTDA portal)
- UNOSAT flood extents (2021 Thailand, 2022 Mun basin, 2024 north)
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (UNOSAT)
- EOS-RS / ARIA flood proxy maps (Bangkok Sep 2026, south 2024-25, Podul 2019)
Licence: As published by the producers; attribution shown
- Department of Water Resources telemetry CCTV (telemetry.dwr.go.th/reportCctv)
Licence: Public DWR website; no licence stated
- Copernicus GLO-30 DEM + GISTDA repeated-flooding history (2005-2016)
Licence: Copernicus DEM (free incl. commercial, attribution); GISTDA public portal
- GISTDA annual flood extents 2009 to 2014 (incl. the 2011 floods) and 2021-22 daily events
Licence: Thai government open data (GISTDA public portal)
- EOS-RS Hat Yai Nov 2025, south 2024, Isaan/Mun 2022 (UNOSAT), Podul 2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (EOS-RS); CC BY-SA 4.0 (UNOSAT)
- BMA ArcGIS Thematic/Drainage, GI_Platform and KaemLing services (cpudgiapp / cpudgiportal.bangkok.go.th)
Licence: No licence published on the services (public BMA data); reuse to be confirmed with BMA
- BMA CPUD Drainage MapServer layers 4 and 5 (81 574 pipes, surveyed road levels) and the 737 flood-risk points (2022 lessons)
Licence: No licence published; BMA reuse of the 737-point item confirmed 2026-09-27
- Heavy-rain street model (Traffy reports + BMA DDS rain days + OSM + drains + subsidence)
Licence: Derived; inputs are Traffy/BMA public reports, ODbL OSM, Copernicus DEM
- BMA KlongMap (weather.bangkok.go.th/Klongmap) and pumps.bangkok.go.th live pump status
Licence: Public BMA sites; no licence stated
- ThaiWater / RID / EGAT dam and reservoir storage
Licence: Public Thai government data
- KlongMap canal feed (GetDataForUpdate)
Licence: Public BMA site
- Flood archive before 2009 and daily 2011 (Chao Phraya, Hat Yai 2010)
Licence: n/a
- ThaiWater / HII public/flow (Bangkok DDS)
Licence: Redistribution license unstated
- BMA DDS pump telemetry
Licence: Reuse license unstated
- BMA CPUD GIS portal
Licence: Item-specific terms unknown
Weather
- Berkeley Earth Land and Ocean gridded monthly temperature (1850 to 2024)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- NASA GIBS: GPM IMERG precipitation (30 min and daily), MERRA-2 monthly precipitation
Licence: NASA open data
- NASA POWER monthly precipitation (MERRA-2, bias corrected), 1981 onward
Licence: NASA open data
- ThaiWater rain gauges (rain_24h, about 4 600 telemetry gauges)
Licence: Public Thai government data
- TMD stations and NOAA METAR (via MapScale API weather-observations)
Licence: Thai Open Data Common; METAR public
- NOAA WaveWatch III via ERDDAP (CoastWatch NWW3_Global_Best; PacIOOS ww3_global mirror)
Licence: US public domain
- NOAA GFS 10 m wind grid (via the globe provider sidecar)
Licence: US public domain
- NOAA NCEP GFS 0.25 degree via NOMADS (rain forecast 30 h, 2 m temperature last 7 days)
Licence: US public domain
- NOAA nowCOAST / GOES / partner satellite imagery
Licence: NOAA disclaimer/credits; input imagery sources retain terms
- NOAA nowCOAST MRMS radar imagery
Licence: NOAA source disclaimer; MRMS coverage/product limits
- TMD wind observations
Licence: Resource-specific TMD terms
- TMD Hydro rainfall feeds
Licence: Open Data Common stated for four specific XML feeds
- NOAA Aviation Weather Center METAR
Licence: Public endpoint; source attribution and NOAA/NWS disclaimer are attached to each emitted feature. Confirm terms for any broader derived use.