Terms & License

1. About This Site

FreakMaps (freakmaps.com) is an independent project built and maintained by Bartłomiej Banasik. It is an infrastructure visualization tool built on OpenStreetMap data — designed to show the bigger picture, not street-level detail.

By using this site, you agree to these Terms.

Paid passes and export credit packs are sold by the legal entity identified at checkout and on your invoice.

2. Data & Ownership

OpenStreetMap data

All geographic data comes from OpenStreetMap and is available under the Open Database License (ODbL). This data belongs to OSM contributors, not to this site.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL.

Original work

The following are the intellectual property of the site operator:

• Visual map styling and colour schemes
• User interface, layout, and design
• Data filtering logic and layer curation
• Site structure, copy, and presentation

These are not covered by the ODbL and are not freely licensed for reuse unless stated below.

3. User Accounts

You can create an account with Google Sign-In, Apple Sign-In, or with a one-time sign-in link or code sent to your email address. By creating an account, you agree to the following:

• You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required by law in your jurisdiction) to create an account.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your sign-in credentials.
• You may only create one account per person. Duplicate accounts may be removed.
• You must not use your account for any illegal, abusive, or unauthorized purpose.

The site operator reserves the right to suspend or permanently terminate accounts that violate these Terms, without prior notice. Account data is stored and processed as described in the Privacy Policy. You may delete your account at any time from Settings → Account. Account-linked custom presets, checkout attempts, active entitlements, unused export credits and exported files are deleted; minimal anonymized Stripe audit records may be retained for tax, accounting, dispute, refund, fraud-prevention, and legal compliance.

5. Right of Withdrawal and Refunds

If you are a consumer in the European Union or EEA, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance purchase. A pass or credit pack is digital content supplied immediately after payment: by completing checkout you expressly ask for immediate supply and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once the pass or credits have been added to your account.

That is the legal position, not the practical one. If a pass or credit pack did not work as described, or you bought it by mistake, email the address in section 13 and it will be sorted out. Refunds are handled through Stripe to the original payment method.

This section applies to consumers. Purchases made by a business, or in the course of a trade or profession, are not covered by the statutory withdrawal right.

6. Permitted Uses

Non-commercial use — free, no pass or permission needed

You may use screenshots or map views for personal projects, enthusiast publications (print or digital), academic research, journalism, and non-profit content — provided you include this credit:

Map: freakmaps.com | Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors

For print, place the credit near the map image. For digital, a visible credit with a link is preferred.

Commercial use

Commercial use of clean exported images is covered by the licence in section 4. Any other commercial use — for example of plain screenshots or watermarked test exports — needs prior written permission, as do the uses excluded from the licence. Contact: [email protected]

7. What You Cannot Do

• Scrape or bulk-download tiles or data from these servers
• Point another site, application or service at these tile servers — the data is ODbL, but access to this infrastructure is not part of what is offered
• Automate or abuse exports, custom preset APIs, or checkout
• Resell exported images as imagery, or pass the exported files on as files, without prior written permission
• Use these maps in a way that implies official endorsement
• Remove or obscure attribution to OpenStreetMap contributors
• Claim the visual design or UI as your own work

8. Accuracy & Reliability

Maps are built on community-maintained OSM data. Quality varies by region and changes over time. Not suitable for navigation, safety-critical decisions, or legal purposes.

9. Liability

The site, the maps and the exports are provided as they are, without warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. You are responsible for checking that a map is suitable before you rely on it or publish it.

To the extent permitted by law, total liability for any claim connected with the site, a pass or a credit pack is limited to the amount you paid in the twelve months before the claim arose, and there is no liability for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or loss of data. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or under mandatory consumer protection rules.

10. Service Availability

This is a side project run by one person, with no guaranteed uptime or support. The service may change or shut down at any time without notice.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by Polish law. If you are a consumer resident in another EU or EEA country, you keep the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings there. Disputes that cannot be resolved by agreement are subject to the courts having jurisdiction over the seat of the site operator.

12. Changes

These Terms may be updated at any time. The effective date at the top reflects the latest revision. Continued use constitutes acceptance.

13. Contact

[email protected]