The Partners

51 sources · with thanks

Every figure in Cherry Outside is measured and published by someone else, free, for everyone. This is who, what each provides, and the terms it is published under. Each is named on the screen that shows its data.

NOAA CO-OPS

Tide and current stations, predictions, datums, water levels, harmonic constituents.

Public domain · U.S. Government work · tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

NOAA NDBC

Ocean buoys: waves, wind, water, currents, ocean chemistry.

Public domain · www.ndbc.noaa.gov

NOAA GLERL

Great Lakes ice, surface temperature, western Lake Erie sampling.

Public domain · www.glerl.noaa.gov

National Weather Service

Forecasts, alerts, marine forecasts, zone and mountain forecasts, the Recreational Report, flood stages (NWPS), radar via nowCOAST.

Public domain · www.weather.gov

NOAA Office of Coast Survey

The chart layer, a picture of the ENC for orientation only.

Public domain · not for navigation · nauticalcharts.noaa.gov

NOAA NCEI

Seafloor relief.

Public domain · www.ncei.noaa.gov

U.S. Naval Observatory

The almanac: sun, moon, phases, seasons, the celestial sky, eclipses.

Public domain · aa.usno.navy.mil

U.S. Geological Survey

River and lake gauges, water quality, the 3DEP terrain, the topographic map and its tiles, GNIS names, the hydrography, trails, point elevations, earthquakes, volcano alerts.

Public domain · www.usgs.gov

USDA NRCS

SNOTEL snow stations.

Public domain · www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Reservoir levels and guide curves; recreation sites.

Public domain · www.usace.army.mil

U.S. Forest Service

Recreation opportunities: campgrounds, trailheads, sites; the Motor Vehicle Use Map's forest roads on Live View and Black/White Out, with their seasons.

Public domain · www.fs.usda.gov

Bureau of Land Management

Recreation sites.

Public domain · www.blm.gov

Recreation.gov (RIDB)

Reservable campgrounds and facilities of the federal agencies.

Public domain · RIDB API · ridb.recreation.gov

National Park Service

Park units, boundaries and alerts.

Public domain · NPS API · www.nps.gov

The avalanche centers · avalanche.org

Forecast zones and danger ratings, shown as theirs.

The centers' own · avalanche.org

MET Norway

Forecasts where the National Weather Service has no grid.

CC BY 4.0 · api.met.no

Pacific Crest Trail Association

The trail's mile markers, sections, passes, resupply towns, trailheads, closures and permit areas, under Basecamp › Journeys.

CC BY 4.0 · Pacific Crest Trail data © PCTA · www.pcta.org

Continental Divide Trail Coalition

The CDT's mile markers, under Basecamp › Journeys.

CC BY · Continental Divide Trail data © CDTC · continentaldividetrail.org

OpenStreetMap contributors

The ski areas, under Basecamp › Snow and on the Maps home; and outside the United States, the names Active Explorer gives the skyline — the peaks with their heights, the lakes, the rivers, the glaciers — and the paths, footways and tracks Flat draws, Live View lays on the ground and the route finder walks, through the Overpass API.

ODbL · © OpenStreetMap contributors · www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Terrain tiles · Mapzen on AWS Open Data

The ground under Live View and Active Explorer outside the United States, where USGS's 3DEP stops — assembled from SRTM, NED, GMTED, ETOPO1 and other public surveys.

Open data · the tiles' own sources' terms · registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles

Fisheries and Oceans Canada · Canadian Hydrographic Service

The highs and lows at Canada's tide stations — the Salish Sea's Canadian shore among them — in the tide network under DFO ids, on chart datum.

Open Government Licence – Canada · www.tides.gc.ca

Kartverket · the Norwegian Mapping Authority (Se havnivå)

The highs and lows and the gauge's level at Norway's 33 permanent tide stations, Viker to Ny-Ålesund, in the tide network under KV ids, on chart datum. © Kartverket.

CC BY 4.0 · www.kartverket.no/til-sjos/se-havniva

Rijkswaterstaat · Waterinfo

The Netherlands: the predicted highs and lows and the gauge’s level at 234 tide stations, and the level at 456 river, canal and lake gauges, every ten minutes to NAP, in the tide and river networks under RWS ids.

CC0 · waterinfo.rws.nl

SMHI · Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Sweden: the sea level by the hour at 60 Baltic and Kattegat gauges and the flow every fifteen minutes at 299 river gauges, the last day, in the river network under SMHI ids.

CC BY 4.0 · www.smhi.se/data

Finnish Meteorological Institute · open data

Finland’s sea level by the hour at fourteen mareographs, Kemi to Hamina, in the river network under FMI ids.

CC BY 4.0 · en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/open-data

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) · hydrology

Finland’s lakes and rivers: the day’s mean level or flow at the continuous places, one value a day, in the river network under SYKE ids.

CC BY 4.0 · www.syke.fi/en/environmental-data

Japan Meteorological Agency · tide tables

Japan’s predicted highs and lows at 239 stations for the year, on the tide table datum, in the tide network under JMA ids; no gauge is read.

JMA website terms (compatible with CC BY 4.0) · www.data.jma.go.jp/kaiyou/db/tide/suisan/index.php

Marine Institute · Irish National Tide Gauge Network

Ireland’s 22 tide gauges — the observed level every five minutes above Lowest Astronomical Tide — as tidal gauges of the river network under MI ids, through the Institute’s ERDDAP.

CC BY 4.0 · erddap.marine.ie

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand · tide predictions

New Zealand’s predicted highs and lows at 87 standard ports for the year, on chart datum, in the tide network under LINZ ids; no gauge is read.

CC BY 4.0 · www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/tides-and-tidal-streams/tide-predictions

ARSO · Agencija Republike Slovenije za okolje

Slovenia’s 166 river, lake and sea-level gauges: the latest reading every half hour, above the gauge’s zero, with ARSO’s own word for it and the high-water levels where they are published, as snapshot gauges of the river network under ARSO ids. Vir: ARSO.

Free for re-use with the source named (Vir: ARSO), per meteo.arso.gov.si/met/sl/about; listed as CC BY 4.0 on Slovenia’s open-data portal · meteo.arso.gov.si/met/sl/about

Keskkonnaagentuur · Estonian Environment Agency

Estonia’s 61 water-level stations, rivers and coast: the latest level hourly on the gauge’s own zero, as snapshot gauges of the river network under EE ids.

Keskkonnaagentuur open data, CC BY 4.0, source named · www.ilmateenistus.ee

IMGW-PIB · Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej

Poland’s 890 river gauges: the latest reading about hourly, above the gauge’s zero, with the warning and alarm stages, as snapshot gauges of the river network under IMGW ids. Źródło: IMGW-PIB.

IMGW-PIB public data terms, source named · danepubliczne.imgw.pl

Environment and Climate Change Canada · Meteorological Service of Canada

The forecast and the weather alerts at Canadian coordinates — the City Page forecast of the nearest city and the warnings in force — through the GeoMet API.

Open Government Licence – Canada · api.weather.gc.ca

Environment Agency

England’s river gauges — the stage every fifteen minutes — and its tide gauges’ observed tidal level above Ordnance Datum, in the river network under EA ids, through the flood-monitoring API.

Open Government Licence v3 · environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Scotland’s river levels every fifteen minutes, in the river network under SEPA ids, through its time-series API.

Open Government Licence v3 · www2.sepa.org.uk/waterlevels

Office of Public Works, Ireland

Ireland’s water levels every fifteen minutes from waterlevel.ie, in the river network under OPW ids.

As published on waterlevel.ie · waterlevel.ie

Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes · PEGELONLINE

Germany’s water levels on the federal waterways — the Rhine, the Elbe, the Danube, the Weser, the canals, the North Sea and Baltic coasts — live, in the river network under WSV ids; the tidal gauges marked tidal.

Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – 2.0 · www.pegelonline.wsv.de

EPA · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The UV index on the WEATHER face and in TODAY’s ledger: the day’s hourly index for the ZIP code at the place, from NOAA’s forecast, with EPA’s own band words (Low to Extreme). Asked three times a day; no row under 1 or past what is published.

Public domain · U.S. Government work · www.epa.gov/enviro/web-services

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

The AURORA row on the sky screens and a Pick's dark nights: the planetary Kp every three hours with a three-day forecast and NOAA's G scale, and OVATION's chance of aurora in the hour ahead at the coordinate shown.

Public domain · U.S. Government work · www.swpc.noaa.gov

NASA EONET · Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker

The FIRES row and the flames on the Maps home: the wildfires open within reach, from the interagency IRWIN feed as NASA carries it — a point and a name, never a perimeter.

Public domain · NASA · eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov

USGS Volcano Hazards Program · HANS

The VOLCANO row on a mountain Place that is one of the volcanoes the app knows: the observatory's colour and alert level in force, or GREEN · NORMAL where none is raised.

Public domain · U.S. Government work · volcanoes.usgs.gov

NASA GIBS

The GOES satellite layer.

Open · earthdata.nasa.gov/gibs

Washington State Ferries · WSDOT

The ferries' live positions, headings, speeds, routes and ETAs, about every minute; the schedules are WSDOT's own pages.

WSDOT Traveler Information API · the user's access code · attribution · wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/api

MRLC · National Land Cover Database

The ground under your feet in the WEATHER scene — crops, grass, forest, shrub, wetland — the 2021 class at your spot, read once and kept ninety days.

Public domain · U.S. Government work · www.mrlc.gov

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Washington's boat ramps, hand launches and fishing piers as recreation sites on the maps, in the lists and under a water's Access — the first state layer, read once a month.

WDFW open GIS data · attribution · wdfw.wa.gov/places-to-go/water-access-sites

Apple Maps

The imagery base and the reverse geocoder's names.

Apple's terms · www.apple.com/maps

Poppins, by the Indian Type Foundry

The names, labels and buttons of the hybrid look, which Prefs › The look turns on and off.

SIL Open Font License 1.1 · fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins/about

Permanent Marker, by Font Diner

The hand the hybrid look's figures and tags are written in.

Apache License 2.0 · fonts.google.com/specimen/Permanent+Marker/about

Vollkorn, by Friedrich Althausen

The word on the Mountaineering cover, set in its Black weight.

SIL Open Font License 1.1 · fonts.google.com/specimen/Vollkorn/about

Apple Visual Look Up

Names a plant, tree, animal, insect or landmark in a picture you take, on the device, through Apple's own lookup; the app never sees the answer and keeps no photo.

Apple's terms · support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iph21c29a1cf/ios

The Patterson–Gimlin film

One frame, frame 352, as the backdrop of Basecamp › Sasquatch, and a link to the unedited reel on the Internet Archive. Shown on the U.S. storefront only. A rights holder who wants it out of the app can write to support@cherryoutside.com; it will be removed in the next update.

Public domain in the U.S. · published 1967 without a copyright notice · Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, Bluff Creek, CA · archive.org/details/patterson-gimlin-bigfoot-film-unedited