Hazardous Area Sites
Data sources and licences
Hazardous Area Sites combines public registers, open map data and its own research. Every figure on a site record carries its source. The sources below are published under licences that ask for credit, and we give it here, on each site record that uses them, and in every export.
Credited sources
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- US EPA Risk Management Program data via the Data Liberation Project (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- INSEE, base Sirene des entreprises et de leurs établissements, 1 September 2026 (Licence Ouverte 2.0)
- European Environment Agency, Industrial Reporting under the IED and E-PRTR, v16 February 2026 (CC BY 4.0)
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada: National Pollutant Release Inventory, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Brønnøysundregistrene, Enhetsregisteret (NLOD 2.0)
- Australian Government DCCEEW, National Pollutant Inventory (CC BY 4.0)
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: Companies House company data and filed accounts
- National Bank of Belgium, Central Balance Sheet Office: filed annual accounts (social balance sheet)
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: Health and Safety Executive, COMAH establishments
- Ministère de la Transition écologique, Géorisques — installations classées (Seveso), retrieved 2026 (Licence Ouverte 2.0)
- Miljødirektoratet, Norskeutslipp (Norwegian PRTR) (NLOD 2.0)
- National Seveso establishment registers of Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland (competent authorities' public lists)
- European Commission, EU Emissions Trading System verified emissions (EUTL), via the EUTL Zenodo compilation (CC BY 4.0)
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada: Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program facility data, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Havtil (Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority), audit reports
- Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH), Producción Fiscalizada Crudo Consolidada, datos.gov.co (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; Source: Office for National Statistics, ONS Postcode Directory, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (via postcodes.io)
- Clean Energy Regulator, Safeguard facility reported emissions (CC BY 4.0)
- Geoscience Australia, Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms (CC BY 4.0)
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: UK Emissions Trading Registry compliance reports
- Norwegian Offshore Directorate (Sodir), FactPages (NLOD 2.0)
- Global Energy Monitor: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker, Global Chemicals Inventory (CC BY 4.0)
Site records that include data from the EPA RMP spreadsheets are adapted from that dataset and are shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 terms. The Sirene data shown is from the stock file dated 1 September 2026.
Public-domain sources
- US OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A summary data (US federal work, public domain)
- US Census Bureau ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer (public domain)
- US EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program facility data (public domain)
- US EPA ECHO Enforcement and Compliance History Online (public domain)
- US Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data (public domain)
- GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier golden copy and relationship records (CC0)
- Wikidata (CC0)
- US EIA Refinery Capacity Report (public domain)
- US BSEE platform structures, Gulf of America (public domain)
Aerial images
Sites without a photo show an aerial image from an official open orthophoto service. Each image is cropped to the site and carries its credit on the site record.
- Imagery: USDA Farm Service Agency NAIP, via U.S. Geological Survey, The National Map (public domain; credit requested) — Public domain (US federal work, USDA FSA NAIP distributed by USGS)
- IGN - BD ORTHO / Geoplateforme (Licence Ouverte 2.0); mention that the image was cropped/resized — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
- Beeldmateriaal Nederland (beeldmateriaal.nl), CC BY 4.0 — CC BY 4.0 (Beeldmateriaal Nederland open data; WMS keyword "open data cc-by")
- (c) Instituto Geografico Nacional de Espana (IGN) - PNOA, CC BY 4.0 (scne.es) — CC BY 4.0 (Sistema Cartografico Nacional, scne.es)
- Datenquelle: basemap.at (with hyperlink to basemap.at) — Open Government Data Austria CC BY 4.0 (basemap.at terms: usable for any purpose, even commercially)
- (c) swisstopo (or "Federal Office of Topography swisstopo") — swisstopo OGD terms of use (free geodata, commercial use permitted with source reference)
- (c) Digitaal Vlaanderen - Orthofotomozaiek Vlaanderen 2025 (short form suggested by Digitaal Vlaanderen) — Vlaamse Open Data Licentie v1.2 (per Digitaal Vlaanderen release page for the 2025 mosaic; older pages cite Modellicentie Gratis Hergebruik v1.0). WMS usage terms = "Gebruiksrecht geografische webdiensten"
- Service public de Wallonie (SPW) - Orthophotos 2021 en Wallonie, CC BY 4.0 (modified: cropped/resized) — CC BY 4.0 (SPW INSPIRE metadata "Orthophotos 2021 en Wallonie": reuse + publication allowed with source citation and explicit mention of modifications)
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Ontario. (c) King's Printer for Ontario, 2025 — Open Government Licence - Ontario
- No attribution required (suggested: (c) Geobasis NRW) — Datenlizenz Deutschland - Zero - Version 2.0 (dl-de/zero-2-0)
- (c) Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung - www.geodaten.bayern.de, CC BY 4.0 (confirm wording at ldbv.bayern.de) — CC BY 4.0
- LGLN (2024), CC BY 4.0 - owner "LGLN" + year of data in brackets (per capabilities) — CC BY 4.0
- (c) GeoBasis-DE/LGB, dl-de/by-2-0 (Daten geaendert); for Berlin add: (c) Geoportal Berlin, dl-de/by-2-0 — Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung - Version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0)
- Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Landesbetrieb Geoinformation und Vermessung (LGV), dl-de/by-2-0 — Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung 2.0 (aerial years); some years are third-party satellite (Pleiades 2022, Maxar) under closed licences
- (c) GeoBasis-DE/M-V <year of last delivery> — No conditions except mandatory source notice (capabilities); MV open geodata
- (c) GeoBasis-DE/LVermGeo SH/CC BY 4.0 — CC BY 4.0
- Landesamt GeoInformation Bremen, CC BY — Creative Commons Namensnennung (CC-BY; version not stated)
- Landesamt fuer Geobasisinformation Sachsen (GeoSN), dl-de/by-2-0 (usual form: (c) GeoBasis-DE/GeoSN) — dl-de/by-2-0 (GeoSN statement 2026: free for commercial and non-commercial use; capabilities only link to nutzungsbedingungen)
- (c) GeoBasis-DE/LVermGeo ST (leaflet wording; some metadata says LVermGeo LSA) — dl-de/by-2-0 (LVermGeo open-data leaflet 2025/2026)
- (c) GDI-Th — CC BY 4.0
- (c) Hessische Verwaltung fuer Bodenmanagement und Geoinformation; if a source note is given it must mention that the data were modified — Free use incl. commercial, copying, modification, passing to third parties (HVGG para 18/24; stated in capabilities)
- (c) GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeoRP (<year of data>), dl-de/by-2-0, http://www.lvermgeo.rlp.de [Daten bearbeitet] — Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung - Version 2.0
- LGL-BW (2024) Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung - Version 2.0, www.lgl-bw.de — Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung - Version 2.0 ("Unentgeltliche Nutzung nach Open Data Lizenz")
Site photos
Photos come only from openly licensed collections that allow commercial reuse: Wikimedia Commons, Geograph Britain and Ireland (CC BY-SA 2.0) and Openverse (Creative Commons licences without NC or ND terms). The author and licence are shown with each photo.
Other sources
Official hazardous-establishment registers (EU Seveso, UK COMAH, France's Géorisques, Norway's PRTR), operator websites, annual reports, vendor case studies, contract announcements and press. Each fact keeps its own citation in the site's audit trail.