Sources and licences

Catacapea exists thanks to open data and public services. Thanks to everyone who maintains them.

Data

Weather: ICON models of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and IFS of the ECMWF (CC BY 4.0), computed with Open-Meteo (open source, Open-Meteo.com) on our server.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, data under the Open Database License (ODbL); vector tiles made with Protomaps (Planetiler); drawn with MapLibre GL JS (BSD licence). Tiles downloaded for offline use remain OpenStreetMap data under the ODbL. Satellite: Esri World Imagery (Powered by Esri; source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community).
Noto fonts (SIL Open Font License 1.1), Protomaps basemaps-assets map icons (MIT), Protomaps basemaps style (CC0).
Place names: OpenStreetMap (from our map); search: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Italian provinces and regions: ISTAT, Confini delle unità amministrative a fini statistici 2025, CC BY 3.0 IT. Swiss cantons: © swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D. Austrian states: BEV, via geoBoundaries (CC BY-SA 2.0; the simplified borders we derive from it have the same licence). Bavaria: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG (dl-de/by-2-0), via geoBoundaries.
Picking rules: laws and regulations of the Italian regions and provinces; Canton Ticino, Legge concernente la raccolta di funghi (483.100); Canton of Grisons, Pilzschutzverordnung (498.150) and Gesetz über den Schutz von Pflanzen und Pilzen (498.100); Austria, Forstgesetz 1975 (§ 174) and the states’ rules (RIS, ris.bka.gv.at); Bavaria and Germany, BNatSchG (§ 39) and BArtSchV.
Elevation, relief and contour lines: AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen). For Europe: “Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union – EU-DEM layers”; also USGS SRTM and GMTED2010, NOAA ETOPO1. Contour lines are computed on the phone.
Land use (Corine Land Cover 2018) and trees (tree cover and forest type, High Resolution Layers 2018): generated using information from the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, processed by us for the score. The European Union does not endorse or support this app.
Mushroom illustrations: Giacomo Bresadola, Iconographia Mycologica (Società Botanica Italiana, Milan 1927–1933) and I funghi mangerecci e velenosi dell’Europa media (1906); Hans Walty, Pilztafelwerk (1926–1930), Swiss National Library (GS-WALTY-A-1-80, 109, 293, 298). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mushroom profiles: DPR 14 July 1995 no. 376 (list of species for sale in Italy); Piedmont Region, Guida ragionata alla commestibilità dei funghi (2021); MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Bresadola census; picking periods from finds on iNaturalist.
Protected areas: EEA CDDA and Natura 2000 (CC BY 4.0).
Soil: ISRIC SoilGrids (CC BY 4.0).
Reports: iNaturalist, only observations their authors publish under CC0 or CC BY; the author is shown on each report.
Forest maps: Lombardy Region (CC BY 4.0); Piedmont Region – Settore Foreste, with IPLA (CC BY 4.0); Veneto Region – Direzione Uffici Territoriali per il Dissesto Idrogeologico – U.O. Foreste e Selvicoltura (IODL 2.0); in the rest of Italy ISPRA – Sistema Carta della Natura, Carta degli Habitat (CC BY 4.0); in Switzerland FOEN/WSL – Habitat map of Switzerland (open data).
Forest trees and lost forest: ForestPaths – European tree genus map 2020, VITO and partners of the Horizon Europe project ForestPaths (CC BY 4.0); OpenGeoHub – silver fir probability 2018–2020, Bonannella et al. 2022 (CC BY 4.0); Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA – Global Forest Change 2000–2024 v1.13 (CC BY 4.0). Processed by Catacapea into tiles by genus.
Hiking trails: waymarkedtrails.org, OpenStreetMap data (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).

Mushroom safety

Edibility, cooking, look-alikes and poison centres come from official sources:

Italy: DPR 376/1995, Ministry of Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Piedmont Region guide (2021), AUSL Bologna;
Austria: Poison Information Centre (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH);
Germany: Giftnotruf München; mushroom experts of the German Mycological Society (DGfM);
Switzerland: Tox Info Suisse; VAPKO.

Software

Leaflet (BSD-2), SunCalc (BSD-2), Firebase, Expo and React Native (MIT).