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Acknowledgements

Last updated: 16 October 2026

Shimbiri brings together data from hydrographic offices, weather services, research agencies and open-source projects. These are the sources behind the app and this website, and the credit each one asks for.

Charts and maps

Charts in Shimbiri are for planning and awareness. They are not for navigation.

  • OpenStreetMap contributors: Map data under the Standard base map in the app and the maps on this website. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles served by the OpenStreetMap Foundation under its tile usage policy. Licence: ODbL 1.0.
  • CARTO basemaps: The Dark base, and the land and water around the official chart. © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Licence: CARTO basemap terms; map data ODbL 1.0.
  • OpenSeaMap: Seamarks over the base map, off the official chart. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Australian Hydrographic Office: Official chart layers. © Commonwealth of Australia. Not for navigation.
  • Geoscience Australia (AusSeabed): Bathymetry for awareness. © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). Not for navigation.
  • Maritime Safety Queensland: Soundings, South Queensland: Dated soundings where the official chart is coarse or a partial survey. © The State of Queensland. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
  • GEBCO Compilation Group (2024), GEBCO 2024 Grid: Land and water where no coastline data is held. Not for navigation. Licence: Public domain (GEBCO terms of use).
  • NOAA NCEI / NGDC global DEM mosaic: Modelled depth contours outside the official chart. Licence: US Government work (public domain).
  • Composite Gazetteer of Australia (ICSM Place Names Working Group / Geoscience Australia): Australian place names used to find places when you plan.
  • New Zealand Gazetteer (LINZ, for the New Zealand Geographic Board): New Zealand place names. Sourced from the LINZ Data Service and licensed for reuse under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
  • GeoNames: Fiji place names. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
  • Esri nautical chart symbols (INT1): Buoy, beacon, light and hazard symbols on the official chart. Licence: Apache License 2.0.

Weather and ocean

  • Open-Meteo: Weather and marine forecast data. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, used under a commercial licence.
  • Australian Bureau of Meteorology: Observations, coastal and marine forecasts and warnings, radar and satellite imagery. Bureau of Meteorology data, used under its conditions of use.
  • ECMWF: IFS and AIFS forecast models and the wave model, from ECMWF open data.
  • NOAA National Weather Service: GFS and GEFS forecast models, the GFS wave model, NDBC buoy observations and marine warnings. Licence: US Government work (public domain).
  • Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD): The ICON forecast model, from DWD open data.
  • Met Office: The UK Met Office global model (UKMO), via the Met Office Weather DataHub.
  • Copernicus Marine Service: Ocean current and sea-level forecasts.
  • HYCOM: Global ocean current forecasts.
  • IMOS / Australian Ocean Data Network: Wave buoy readings and sea-level anomaly. IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Tides and currents

Open-source software

Shimbiri and this website are built with open-source software. Thank you to everyone who maintains it.

  • Leaflet: Maps in the app and on this website. Licence: BSD 2-Clause.
  • MapLibre GL JS: Drawing the official vector chart. Licence: BSD 3-Clause.
  • PMTiles: Reading the stored chart tiles. Licence: BSD 3-Clause.
  • Noto Sans: Chart labels. Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Chart Serif Italic (from Liberation Serif Italic 2.1): Place names on the Classic chart, converted and renamed as the licence requires. © Google 2010, Red Hat 2012. Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Next.js and React: This website. Licence: MIT.
  • Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, clsx, tailwind-merge, react-intersection-observer: Styling and motion on this website. Licence: MIT.
  • Firebase JavaScript SDK: Sign-in on this website. Licence: Apache License 2.0.
  • tz-lookup: Time zones for places on this website. Licence: CC0 1.0.

Spotted a missing or wrong credit? Tell us at support@shimbiri.ai.