Data attributions

Marinage’s places — the states, districts, ports, beaches and backwaters you search by — come from open datasets maintained by others. Their licences require us to say so, and we are glad to.

• GeoNames

  Licensed under CC BY 4.0

  Indian states and union territories, district and state administrative seats, ports, and water features — lakes, lagoons, bays, estuaries, harbours and anchorages. Also the alternate place names that let “Orissa”, “Panjim” and “Cochin” resolve to their current official names.

• DataMeet

  Licensed under CC BY 4.0

  State and district boundary polygons, used to frame maps and to scope searches to a region.

• Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (data.gov.in)

  Licensed under Government Open Data Licence — India

  The list of major and non-major Indian ports.

• Inland Waterways Authority of India

  Licensed under Government Open Data Licence — India

  India’s declared National Waterways, including the Kerala backwaters and the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Odisha routes.

• OpenStreetMap contributors

  Licensed under ODbL 1.0

  Map tiles and address lookup when a location is not found in the curated catalogue.

Place data is refreshed periodically from these sources. Names shown on Marinage are the ones each dataset records as current; where a place is widely known by an older name, both resolve to the same location. Corrections are welcome at info@marinage.in.