Credits
Wonder is built on open data about the real Earth. These are the sources, their licences and how Wonder changed them. The map inside the game also names its own sources.
Sky sources and attribution
Star data: HYG v4.1 by David Nash / The Astronomy Nexus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Adapted for Wonder: 8,920 stars of visual magnitude 6.5 or brighter (the naked-eye limit); Sun excluded. Coordinates converted to degrees, stars sorted by brightness, fields selected and missing colour values filled. The modified data is also CC BY-SA 4.0; this does not change the game's source-code licence. Attribution and modification details.
Milky Way: The Milky Way panorama, ESO/S. Brunier, CC BY 4.0. Adapted for Wonder: two photographed planets painted out, resized to 2048 by 1024 and projected onto the sky by galactic coordinates. Attribution and modification details.
Sun and Moon directions follow your location and the real date. Their discs are enlarged for visibility. Clear, mixed and grey skies are generated daily moods, not a weather forecast.
Terrain, map and power sources
MAP © OSM CONTRIBUTORS · CITY OF HAMILTON BUILDING DATA WHERE IDENTIFIED, UNDER THE CITY OF HAMILTON'S OPEN DATA LICENCE · PROCEDURAL PRESENTATION ELSEWHERE · ELEVATION GEDTM30 V1.2 / NOAA ETOPO 2022 / MAPZEN FALLBACK · MASK GSHHG 2.3.7 · WATER © ONTARIO HYDRO NETWORK · REGIONAL LAND COVER ESA WORLDCOVER 2021
Agricultural parcels: Overture Maps Foundation base land use, release 2026-09-23.1, including OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL-1.0). Generalized zoom-13 parcel boundaries; coverage varies. Crop choices, decorative plants and missing farm appearance are procedural, not surveyed crop or building details.
Mapped enclosure classification: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL-1.0, source snapshot 6 September 2026. Missing wall dimensions are generated.
Mapped power scenery: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation. ODbL-1.0 source records are retained. Tower design, missing heights and wire sag are generated presentation, not engineering measurements.
Primary near elevation: Ho, Y.-F., Grohmann, C. H., Lindsay, J., Reuter, H. I., Parente, L., Witjes, M., and Hengl, T. (2025), GEDTM30 v1.2, PeerJ 13, e19673, DOI 10.7717/peerj.19673. Dataset distributed by OpenTopography, DOI 10.5069/G9BV7DT1, under CC BY 4.0. Wonder resamples bounded source windows into integer-metre geodetic tiles. WGS84 horizontal coordinates and EGM2008 heights are retained. Published coverage is 62.00875 degrees south to 83.68525 degrees north.
Mapzen aggregate elevation and NOAA ETOPO remain worldwide fallbacks. Mapzen dates, resolution and ground-versus-surface meaning vary. None of these sources is a survey or navigation product.
- ArcticDEM: DEMs created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery, funded by National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691 and 1542736.
- Australia: © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017.
- Austria: © offene Daten Österreichs, Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich.
- Canada: contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence, Canada.
- Europe: produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union, EU-DEM layers.
- Global ETOPO1: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI. U.S. Government material is not subject to copyright protection within the United States.
- Mexico: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016.
- New Zealand: Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government. All rights reserved.
- Norway: © Kartverket.
- United Kingdom: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.
- United States 3DEP and global GMTED2010 and SRTM: courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
City, town and neighbourhood names
Containing administrative and locality areas: Overture Maps Foundation Divisions, release 2026-09-23.1. Derived from OpenStreetMap contributors and other credited providers under ODbL-1.0. Boundaries use generalized zoom-12 vector tiles; local coverage varies. Country and continent context uses Natural Earth.