About & licenses

Who runs it

UK Live Traffic is run by Pakman Project. Questions, corrections and requests about your data: pakmanproject@gmail.com.

The code is open source: github.com/Pakman-Project/UKLiveTraffic. This is build mw22xdbl, which is worth quoting if you report a fault.

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Data and credits

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The map is only possible because these organisations publish what they know. Each is used under its own terms.

Crime areas and crime-avoiding routes

Crimes recorded by the police, from data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0). Where a police force's latest figures are not out, the map says the data is older.

Road works, sensors and traffic counts

Planned road works on National Highways roads, found through data.gov.uk; road closures by councils and utility companies in England, from the Department for Transport's Street Manager open data; National Highways traffic sensors (WebTRIS); the Department for Transport's road traffic counts. All Open Government Licence v3.0.

Road closures in traffic orders

Digital Traffic Regulation Orders (D-TRO), Department for Transport: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Parking rules

Digital Traffic Regulation Orders (D-TRO), Department for Transport: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

London roads, cameras and journeys

Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights 2019. Used under the TfL Transport Data Service licence.

North East traffic cameras

North East Traffic Cameras, re-used under its terms.

Buses, coaches, trams and stops

Positions and timetables from the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service, and stops and stations from NaPTAN (Open Government Licence v3.0).

Trains and stations

National Rail Darwin, through the Rail Data Marketplace, used under the Marketplace's terms.

Ships

Ship positions from aisstream.io, used under its terms.

Aircraft

Positions from adsb.lol, whose data is published under the Open Database Licence; the route a callsign usually flies from Virtual Radar Server's standing data (CC0), copied to our server once a week.

Street lights

Where councils say their street lights are, each list under its own open licence (the Open Government Licence v3.0 for all of them so far), with the outline of each area from the Office for National Statistics: Leeds City Council, Street lights (unmetered), on Data Mill North; Lancashire County Council; Sheffield City Council, the lights on the highway network that Amey Hallam Highways maintains; Copyright City of Edinburgh Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; Wigan Council; Nottingham City Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; Dundee City Council, © Crown copyright and database rights Ordnance Survey 100023371; Perth & Kinross Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; City of York Council, © Crown copyright and database rights Ordnance Survey 100020818; © Bracknell Forest Council, with Ordnance Survey data; Stirling Council; London Borough of Lambeth; City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; London Borough of Camden; Derbyshire County Council; Darlington Borough Council; Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland).

DVLA vehicle checks

The MOT and road tax dates of a vehicle, from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's Vehicle Enquiry Service, looked up by number plate in Trip options. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Fuel prices

The Government's Fuel Finder, used under its terms.

Electric vehicle chargers

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence), read through the Overpass mirrors of kumi.systems and private.coffee; and, where it is switched on, Open Charge Map (CC BY 4.0) and its data providers, each named with its licence where the chargers are listed. Only providers whose data is under an open licence are shown.

Speed cameras, low bridges and weight limits

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).

Car parks and parking on streets

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).

Shops and restaurants nearby

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).

Public toilets, drinking water, emergency services, level crossings and schools

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).

Air quality

The Daily Air Quality Index forecast for each monitoring site, from Defra's UK-AIR: © Crown 2026 copyright Defra via uk-air.defra.gov.uk, licenced under the Open Government Licence (OGL).

Collision hotspots

Road collisions from the Department for Transport's road safety data, which contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Flood warnings

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Natural Resources Wales flood warnings come from its live flood warnings API, which gives one point for each area, so each is drawn as a circle round that point, not as the flood's own outline. Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. That API has no guaranteed service level, and it does not replace the flood warning systems that Natural Resources Wales runs. The flood warnings shown here, on the map and on a route, are a guide and are not safety critical: follow the official warnings from Floodline, the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.

Bank holidays

Bank holiday dates from GOV.UK, used to leave the school warnings off the days schools are shut. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

National Highways live data

Road closures and lane closures, the incidents on the roads (crashes, and lanes shut by signs), the temporary speed limits on roadworks and the messages on the digital road signs, from National Highways' Digital Lab live feeds. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rain forecast

Powered by Met Office data: the rain forecast pictures from the Met Office's Weather DataHub (Map Images), used under its terms. This server asks the Met Office for them about once an hour and keeps a copy, so visitors do not reach the Met Office.

Weather warnings

Powered by Met Office data: the Met Office's National Severe Weather Warnings from its Weather DataHub, © Crown copyright, used under its terms. This server asks the Met Office for them every ten minutes and keeps the last answer, so visitors do not reach the Met Office; a warning on a route is a heads-up, and the official warnings are what to follow.

Night light

Night-time light from NASA's Black Marble (the VIIRS day/night band; Román and others, 2018, Remote Sensing of Environment 210), the median of a year of daily pictures. We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).

Council boundaries

Council areas from Ordnance Survey's Boundary-Line, used under the Open Government Licence; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Radon

Radon potential from the BGS and UKHSA Indicative Atlas of Radon: BGS © UKRI; contains OS data © Crown copyright; used under the Open Government Licence. We acknowledge the reproduced BGS and UKHSA materials.

Mining hazard

Mining hazard (not including coal), the 1 km hex grid from the British Geological Survey: BGS © UKRI; contains OS data © Crown copyright; used under the Open Government Licence.

Weather

Forecasts from MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute), under CC BY 4.0 (its terms), adapted: we take the hour's forecast for a place and show its temperature, wind (in miles an hour), rain and an icon, with a feels-like temperature we work out from it; the cloud cover behind the low-sun warning comes from the same forecast. Weather warnings from the Met Office (Open Government Licence v3.0).

News headlines

Headlines and links from BBC News RSS; each opens the story on the BBC's site.

The map

Map pictures from OpenFreeMap: © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).

Satellite pictures

Powered by Esri: imagery, and the place names over it, from Esri and the sources its services name, which the map shows with the pictures (on 1 November 2026: Vantor, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, TomTom, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, © OpenStreetMap contributors and the GIS User Community), through Esri's ArcGIS Location Platform, used under Esri's terms. The pictures are never kept on your device.

Heights and the 3D hills

Ground heights from the Terrain Tiles on Amazon Web Services' open data registry, used for the climbs in the elevation profiles of walks and rides (through our routing server) and for the hills of the 3D map: United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved; Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers; United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Clean air and low emission zones

© OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence); Bradford's Clean Air Zone boundary from City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council's open data (Open Government Licence v3.0).

Directions

Routes by Valhalla (MIT licence) on © OpenStreetMap contributors data; live traffic and routes © TomTom, when switched on.

Searching for places

Photon, a search service by komoot, and Nominatim, OpenStreetMap's own search, both on © OpenStreetMap contributors data; UK postcodes from postcodes.io, which uses Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics data.

Airport and port guides

Road traffic from the Department for Transport's road traffic counts (Open Government Licence v3.0); the share of passengers who leave an airport by road is our own estimate for each airport, judged from the transport links it has to the towns round it.

Street lights

Where the site has a key for it, Ordnance Survey's National Geographic Database (through the OS Data Hub) says which roads and paths along a walk or ride have street lights. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Plus Codes

Google's Open Location Code (Apache License 2.0), written again for this site.

Chinese place names

From the Chinese names in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and the labels in Wikidata (CC0); where neither has one, our own translations, which may still have mistakes. Conversion between Chinese scripts uses OpenCC.

Software and licences

UK Live Traffic is a UK variant of HK Traffic Intelligence by Keith Li, and is released under the same MIT licence, whose notice is kept as the licence requires:

MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Keith Li Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

It is built with these, each under its own licence:

• MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause) draws the map.
• Next.js and React (MIT) make the site.
• Valhalla (MIT) works out routes.
• sharp (Apache License 2.0, with libvips under LGPL-3.0-or-later) makes images.
• OpenCC JS (MIT and Apache License 2.0) converts between Chinese scripts.
• Nodemailer (MIT-0) sends the operator's fault alerts.
• Icons from Lucide (ISC licence).
• The typefaces Outfit and IBM Plex Mono, and the NERV look's Oswald, Barlow Condensed and JetBrains Mono (SIL Open Font License 1.1), served from this site.
• The NERV look follows the style patterns of nerv-ui, and one of its start-up screens shows the text of nerv-ui's blog example. nerv-ui is © 2026 NERV-UI Contributors, MIT licence, and its notice is quoted below.

nerv-ui, MIT License. Copyright (c) 2026 NERV-UI Contributors. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion is © Khara / Gainax (Project Eva). The NERV look is an unofficial fan homage, not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
• The Android app uses AndroidX and the Android for Cars App Library (Apache License 2.0), MapLibre Native (BSD-2-Clause) to draw the map on the car's screen, and Google's Play Billing Library (Android Software Development Kit License) to sell UK Live Traffic Plus through Google Play.