Data sources and attribution
Where our place data comes from, and the terms it carries
Overture Maps
Place listings on thePulse are seeded from the Overture Maps Foundation places theme, then corrected and enriched by our community. Overture assigns every place a stable GERS identifier, which is what lets us re-sync against later releases without losing the corrections made here.
Release in use: 2026-07-22.0
Licences
The seeded corpus carries the following source datasets and licence terms. Counts are of published places and are read directly from our own records. Counts as of 30 September 2026, 19:19 UTC, refreshed twice daily.
- Overture — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (11839407 places)
- Overture-signals — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (8651547 places)
- meta — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (7186962 places)
- Microsoft — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (2662315 places)
- Foursquare — Apache-2.0 (1257768 places)
- BrightQuery — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (494339 places)
- AllThePlaces — CC0-1.0 (149808 places)
- DAC — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (81034 places)
- PinMeTo — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (5263 places)
- RenderSEO — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (1918 places)
Full licence texts:
CDLA-Permissive-2.0 ·
Apache-2.0 ·
CC0-1.0.
A NOTICE file accompanies the source of this site.
Boundaries and demographics
Municipal, county and state boundaries, and the demographic figures shown on geography pages, are derived from United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files and the American Community Survey. Census Bureau works are in the public domain.
Affiliate disclosure
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Corrections
Seed data is a starting point and it will be wrong in places. If a listing is inaccurate, use the “Suggest an edit” link on the place’s page, or claim the listing if it is your business.