Credits & attribution

Every off-site link on this entire site lives here, in one place — this page is the complete list. (The one exception is the small attribution line printed on the map itself, which the tile licences require to stay with the map.)

The wind model

WindNinja — USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Lab. Open source, GPL-licensed. Project site · Source code.

Maps & terrain

• OpenStreetMap contributors — street map data (ODbL).
• OpenTopoMap — topographic basemap (CC-BY-SA).
• Esri — World Topographic, World Imagery and World Hillshade basemaps.
• AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen/Joerd project) — the elevation data WindNinja actually solves on: a blend of SRTM, USGS NED/3DEP, GMTED and ETOPO1.
• Leaflet — the map library this site is built on (BSD licence).

Live weather & forecasts

• Open-Meteo — current conditions and short-range forecasts (CC-BY 4.0).
• NOAA National Weather Service API — US station observations and active alerts.
• NOAA NOMADS — GFS/HRRR/NAM weather-model fields for Forecast mode.

Search

• OpenStreetMap Nominatim — geocoding (place search and reverse lookup).

About SummitFlux

SummitFlux LLC (summitflux.com) is an outdoor gear company modernizing outdoor gear with innovative design, interdisciplinary ideas and eco-friendly practices. It makes composite snow crystal cards for avalanche professionals and backcountry enthusiasts, and is developing a backcountry inclinometer. windfield.summitflux.com (Windfield) is a SummitFlux project, built on the USFS WindNinja engine and offered free for the time being.

Privacy & terms

This site's privacy policy and terms are SummitFlux's: Privacy policy · Terms.