Data sources and licences

Restaurant listings: Overture Maps

Restaurant names, addresses, locations and categories come from Overture Maps Foundation’s places data, © Overture Maps Foundation and its contributors. We keep only places to eat, match their categories to our cuisines and write their addresses on one line. Overture builds each place from these sources, under these licences:

• Meta, Microsoft, BrightQuery, DAC, PinMeTo and Overture’s own data: Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 2.0 (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
• Foursquare Open Source Places: Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0; distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind. Foursquare data was transformed to the Overture schema by Overture Maps Foundation (changed 2026-03-18), and MunchMiles changes it as described above. See Foursquare’s NOTICE.
• All the Places: CC0 1.0 (public domain).

Each restaurant saved from Overture records the monthly release and the source datasets it came from.

Restaurant search: Google

Searching for a restaurant can also ask Google. A Google pick is saved with Overture’s details of the same place. MunchMiles doesn’t keep Google’s details of a place Overture doesn’t list. Its name is what you typed to find it when that is its name; in New York City, the Health Department’s listing of it; or it’s looked up on the web by Anthropic’s Claude, from your search and roughly where you were, never from Google. Otherwise it shows as “Unnamed spot” until you or another member who ate there types it. It’s pinned where you were: where your photos were taken, or where you used Near me. Only you see that pin until you choose to show it to others. With neither, it goes on your map at its town’s centre, which only you see, until it’s located. Google’s location of it is never its pin.

Google Maps features and content are subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

The map

Map tiles are served by OpenFreeMap, built on OpenMapTiles (© OpenMapTiles) with map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The map also credits them in its corner.

Cities and places

City names and locations come from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

When we place a restaurant at its street address, the point comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s geocoder (public domain) or from Nominatim, with data © OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODbL.

In New York City, restaurant names and addresses also come from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s restaurant inspection results on NYC Open Data, with names written in everyday capitals. The City of New York doesn’t endorse MunchMiles.

Flags

Country flags on some devices and on shared passport pages are Twemoji by Twitter, CC BY 4.0.