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All original material, written by Scott Hatton or otherwise on The Underground Map website is issued under the Creative Commons License/CC-BY-3.0.

Images (photography) are mostly sourced from 'orphaned' copyright images older than 70 years old, Wiki Commons or other Creative Commons-licenced sources, and are attributed as neccessary. If you feel we have made a mistake in our attribution or can show copyright, we will be more than pleased to correct where appropriate. In other instances where we have used material with permission, a credit is published below the image.

Images (mapping) are mostly sourced from OpenStreetMap and out-of-copyright mapping except for:

UK addresses. These are based on a number of sources:

Postcode data

Further reading upon copyright in the digital age:



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