Credits

Last updated: 2 October 2026

RootMap is built on the work of these projects and data providers — thank you to all of them.

Map tiles & geocoding

The map needs internet to fetch tiles from these providers, with attribution shown on the map.

OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database License. Powers the Streets basemap (in light and dark mode), place search, and place names in the photo viewer (via OSM's Nominatim geocoder).
Esri — Tiles © Esri. Source: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community. Powers the Satellite, Hybrid (imagery and place labels), and Topo basemaps.

Leaflet & Leaflet.draw — interactive map, bundled with the app (BSD-2 / MIT)
FaceONNX + Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime (DirectML) — on-device face detection (MIT)
Magick.NET (ImageMagick) — image decoding for HEIC and legacy JPEG variants (Apache 2.0)
MetadataExtractor — EXIF / GPS extraction (Apache 2.0)
Microsoft.Web.WebView2 — the embedded browser that draws the map
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite + SQLite — local database (MIT / Public Domain)
CommunityToolkit.Mvvm — MVVM helpers (MIT)
FFmpeg — video thumbnails. RootMap uses code of FFmpeg under the LGPLv2.1. FFmpeg source: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html.

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