Attribution, Privacy, and Terms

The notice below travels with the server rather than living only on knowhere.live, because a credit on a website does not reach a client that only ever speaks MCP.

Attribution

Contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Every place, road, trail, and boundary Knowhere answers with was mapped by volunteers. Regional extracts are prepared and distributed by Geofabrik.

House numbers may also come from OpenAddresses, which is not one dataset under one licence but a few thousand county, city and state open-data publications, each with its own terms. Some require a specific credit — Statistics Canada's, for example, carries a sentence it must be quoted with. Sources whose terms conflict with the ODbL, and any restricted to non-commercial use, are excluded when the artifact is built rather than noted in it.

Which sources are actually in the database being served is a question only that database can answer, and knowhere://attribution answers it — per source, per area, with each licence and the credit it requires. Read it before republishing anything derived from these answers. This page carries the terms that always apply; that resource carries the ones that apply to this build.

Results returned by these tools are individual extracts, not the database. They may be stored and used alongside other data. What they may not be used for is systematically reassembling the underlying database — aggregating all or substantially all features of a given type across an area city-sized or larger. That crosses from using the answers to copying the source.

knowhere://attribution renders the credits for the specific artifact being served, including any source that only covers some areas. Read that one when the question is "what is in this database"; read this one for the terms that always apply.

The software

The Knowhere server software is proprietary. It is built on open source Go libraries — among them Echo, SQLite, goja, and the Model Context Protocol Go SDK — which keep their own licences.

Privacy

Full policy: https://www.knowhere.live/privacy.html

Knowhere is operated by JT Archie. The website collects one thing: the email address typed into the invite form, with the date it was submitted. No analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts, and no cookies of its own. Top Banana hosts the site and stores form submissions; Cloudflare serves it as CDN and routes contact email. Addresses are kept until you ask us to stop, and every mail carries an unsubscribe link. To see, correct, or delete what we hold, mail hello@knowhere.live.

Terms of service

Full terms: https://www.knowhere.live/terms.html

The two that matter when a model is reading:

Answers describe the data, not the world. Coverage varies by region, records go stale, and some things were never mapped. Counts and distances are measurements of OpenStreetMap, not guarantees about what is actually there.

Nothing here is advice. Not real-estate, financial, legal, or professional advice. Verify anything load-bearing — drive times, school assignments, road maintenance, insurability, utilities — with the relevant local authority before acting on it.

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty. Total liability for any claim is capped at US $100. Colorado law governs. The ODbL terms above govern your use of the underlying data regardless of these terms.

Questions or corrections: hello@knowhere.live.