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World Explorer 3D

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World Explorer combines first-party game systems with attributed open data, public scientific sources, licensed software, and optional provider services. Provider coverage and availability vary.

Maps & Earth

ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors โ€” ODbL 1.0. Includes mapped roads, buildings, water, places, and surveillance nodes.

Esri World Imagery โ€” satellite basemap and regional terrain colour. Source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community. Imagery is dated; it does not represent live weather.

ESA WorldCover 2021 / modified Copernicus Sentinel data โ€” CC BY 4.0. GEBCO bathymetry โ€” CC BY 4.0. Copernicus and USGS terrain artifacts retain source-specific notices.

Antarctic elevation: Howat et al. (2022), Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Mosaics v2. Antarctic DEMs: Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center / Polar Geospatial Center; NSF-OPP awards 1043681, 1542736, 1543501, 1559691, 1810976, 2129685. Esri orthometric EGM2008 service; surface elevations may include structures. Source acknowledgements.

Live & community feeds

ADSB.lol aircraft observations (ODbL 1.0); USGS earthquakes; CelesTrak orbital elements; MET Norway hourly weather (CC BY 4.0; wind units and weather categories converted); PacIOOS WAVEWATCH III waves with NOAA / NCEP WAVEWATCH III fallback via NSF Unidata; HYCOM / FNMOC ESPC surface currents and temperature; NOAA CO-OPS observations and tide predictions.

Panoramax and KartaView street imagery is provided by their contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Software, fonts & assets

Marine coral forms: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, CC0 1.0. Museum scans were simplified, scaled and recolored for authored habitat. They are not observations of living colonies at the game coordinates.

Three.js r128 โ€” MIT License. Inter, Poppins, Orbitron, Righteous, Barlow, and Chakra Petch fonts โ€” SIL Open Font License.

Vegetation: Low poly vegetation for games by denoises; Bush by lev26. Ship surface maps and computer-room equipment: Sci-Fi Computer Room by Michael V. Adapted for the game under CC BY 4.0.

NASA, ESA, JPL-Caltech, USGS Astrogeology, LROC, Wikimedia contributors, ambientCG, and Poly Haven assets retain the credits and terms documented in the attribution index.

Project terms

World Explorer 3D is publicly viewable under its proprietary source-available license. Attribution alone does not grant permission to copy, publish, host, or redistribute the game. Third-party components and data remain under their original terms.

Detailed asset-level credits are retained with the bundled model and texture records. This summary is informational and is not legal advice.

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