Acknowledgements

Arctelia uses a mix of public APIs, government services, nonprofit data, and locally stored reference datasets to power planning, environmental context, and place discovery.

This page is generated from the repository's provider registry so new data integrations can be documented in one place and cited consistently.

Environmental

Open-Meteo Forecast API

Open-Meteo

Free

Weather forecasts and current atmospheric conditions for Calm planning and geo context.

Open-Meteo Climate API

Open-Meteo

Free

Seasonal climate normals used for planning windows beyond short-term forecasts.

Open-Meteo Marine API

Open-Meteo

Free

Sea-surface temperature context for marine and coastal sessions.

NOAA CO-OPS Tides & Currents

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

FreeGovernment

Tide predictions, coastal water timing, and measured station water temperature (water_temperature product) used in Scout guidance + the Activity model's temperature term.

USGS National Water Information System

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

River flow, water temperature, and gage-height observations for freshwater conditions.

USGS NHDPlus High Resolution

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

National stream-reach geometry (NetworkNHDFlowline) — the provider reserved for the deferred per-waterbody freshwater likelihood layer in Scout.

USGS Aquatic GAP — HUC8 Native Fish Ranges

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

Coarse native-range maps (HUC8) for 123 freshwater fish species, ingested into fish_native_ranges to drive the watershed-grain freshwater range / likelihood overlay.

USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS)

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

Spatially-referenced occurrence records for introduced freshwater fish, aggregated to HUC8 watersheds (joined to WBD boundaries) and baked DB-free to a PMTiles range fill. Drives the Scout 'Introduced (NAS)' overlay — the only range surface for species with no native range here (brown trout, stocked rainbows).

FishBase

FishBase Consortium

Free

Species habitat summaries (preferred depth, substrate, current, vegetation) curated into the per-species habitat-preference table that feeds the fused 'Activity' likelihood model's habitatMatch term. Combined with state fisheries habitat profiles.

GBIF — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

GBIF Secretariat

Free

Live occurrence-density map tiles (GBIF Maps API) streamed client-side to drive the Scout 'Observed density' freshwater overlay — where a species has actually been recorded, hex-binned by count. No pipeline, no DB; complements the curated native (Aquatic GAP) and introduced (NAS) range fills.

USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

National hydrologic-unit (HUC) boundary polygons — the watershed geometry the NAS occurrences are joined to for the introduced-range (HUC8) fill, and the basis for the freshwater native-range overlay.

USGS Statistics Service

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

Historical flow normals used for seasonal planning and comparisons.

USGS 3DEP Elevation Point Query Service

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

Elevation samples used for terrain-aware guidance and route context.

NOAA nowCOAST / BlueTopo Bathymetry

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

FreeGovernment

Bathymetry tiles and derived contours used for coastal and marine map overlays.

eBird API

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

API KeyNonprofit

Bird frequency and notable sightings used in habitat and birding context.

iNaturalist Observations API

iNaturalist / California Academy of Sciences / National Geographic Society

FreeNonprofit

Species observations used for ecological and place-based natural history context.

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FreeGovernment

Flood-zone overlays used in site and risk context.

EPA Smart Location Database

United States Environmental Protection Agency

FreeGovernment

Walkability and urban-form metrics used in urban and architectural context.

US Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates

United States Census Bureau

API KeyGovernment

Demographic context used for neighborhood and place interpretation.

OpenStreetMap Overpass API

OpenStreetMap contributors / Overpass

FreeNonprofit

Nearby building context and map features used in site interpretation.

Walk Score API

Walk Score

API Key

Walk, transit, and bike scores used for urban mobility context.

TomTom Traffic Flow API

TomTom

API Key

Road congestion and flow context used for urban timing and route conditions.

Places

OpenStreetMap Static Map Tiles

OpenStreetMap contributors

FreeNonprofit

Static map images for saved and recommended locations in entry context and the Inspiration pinboard.

Nominatim Search and Reverse Geocoding

OpenStreetMap Foundation / Nominatim

FreeNonprofit

Reverse geocoding used to label GPS-selected locations in endurance and scribble flows.

Foursquare Places API

Foursquare

API Key

Place search and venue context used in Slate suggestions and geo guidance.

Google Places API (New)

Google

API Key

Nearby and text place search used in location discovery and suggestions.

Recreation.gov RIDB API

Recreation.gov / U.S. federal recreation partners

API KeyGovernment

Recreation areas and facilities used in outdoor location suggestions.

Reference

USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species — Native Ranges

United States Geological Survey

FreeGovernment

Native vs. introduced status for freshwater game fish, used to colour stream reaches in the Scout freshwater overlay.

New York State DEC Fish Stocking

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

FreeGovernment

State fish-stocking records (waterbody, species, quantity) used to distinguish stocked from wild freshwater populations in Scout.

Wikivoyage MediaWiki API

Wikimedia Foundation

FreeNonprofit

Destination and local place context used in travel and location guidance.

Wikidata SPARQL Query Service

Wikimedia Foundation

FreeNonprofit

Structured place and entity lookup used in location search.

Local Dataset

PhyloPic silhouettes (local copy)

PhyloPic

Local CopyNonprofit

Vetted category-level, taxonomic-family, and exact-species silhouettes imported from PhyloPic into local assets and uploaded to Supabase Storage for ecology imagery, including structured coastal marine mammal, seabird, shellfish, and forage-fish coverage.

Fish species & forage reference (curated)

Arctelia (compiled from public fisheries science)

Local Copy

Curated reference profiles for 289 gamefish, forage fish, invertebrate/amphibian prey, and salmonid subspecies/hybrids — temperature preferences, habitat, seasonal peak months by region, fly/lure matches, a species-relationship graph (subspecies, life-history forms, color morphs, hybrids), and curated native/introduced + historic-range / migration-corridor / thermal-limit facts. Compiled from public fisheries science (FishBase, NOAA/MRIP & NOAA Fisheries, USGS NAS, ASMFC, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, Western Native Trout Initiative, and peer-reviewed literature) with editorial synthesis; powers the seasonal food-web, target-species, and unified range/activity models.

UNESCO World Heritage dataset (local copy)

UNESCO

Local CopyNonprofit

Locally stored world heritage records used in search and place suggestions.

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