Data attribution & licensing
Attribution & Licence
Full attribution for the data and tools used in the 1000 Springs Project.
Primary data source
Project
1000 Springs Project
Institutions
GNS Science and University of Waikato, New Zealand
Data accessed
2026
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Licence summary (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Share
You may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt
You may remix, transform, and build upon the material.
Attribution required
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
NonCommercial
You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike
If you remix or adapt, you must distribute under the same CC BY-NC-SA licence.
This is a summary, not legal advice. See the full licence at creativecommons.org.
How this project uses the data
This explorer uses the 1000 Springs Project dataset solely for non-commercial educational and research purposes, in compliance with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
Source URLs and access dates are retained for every record. Attribution to the 1000 Springs authors, GNS Science, and the University of Waikato is displayed throughout the app.
Adapted content derived from the 1000 Springs Project dataset is published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Third-party tools and services
OpenStreetMap
© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
Leaflet
BSD 2-Clause Licence
Next.js
MIT Licence
Tailwind CSS
MIT Licence