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Kohlschwarz is a non-commercial project creating and publishing data visualizations and analyses of Austrian public data. The applications serve to inform the public and demonstrate data processing methods.

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Copyright

The contents and works created by the site operator on these pages are subject to Austrian copyright law. Unless stated otherwise, the data visualizations and analyses are available for reuse under an open license.

Open source & licences

The source code of this website is released under the MIT licence. Our own texts and screenshots are licensed CC BY 4.0 (attribution: “Kohlschwarz, kohlschwarz.at”).

The showcased applications are independent projects. Where published, their code is MIT-licensed and derived data is generally CC BY 4.0. The data sources each one uses (e.g. Statistik Austria, data.gv.at, eHYD, OpenStreetMap, Hansen/GFC, ENTSO-E) are listed with their own terms in the LICENSE file of the respective repository:

• Holzeinschlag Österreich – MIT; Hansen/GFC & GFW carbon flux (CC BY 4.0), Statistik Austria harvest & municipality boundaries (CC BY 4.0), BML harvest reports, LK timber prices via preise.agrarforschung.at (model values), EU ETS prices; details at /lizenz
• GW Power – Groundwater – MIT; groundwater index and all derived values CC BY 4.0 (sources: eHYD/BML, EEA WISE, Wasserschatz Österreich, Copernicus EDO, NASA POWER, Statistik Austria, WGMS, RGI, GeoSphere Austria SNOWGRID); exception: catchment and glacier-fed reach layers from MERIT-Hydro/MERIT-Basins are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (non-commercial); ENTSO-E non-commercial only; details at /license
• Land Cruiser 100 Blueprint – MIT
• Maternity ward accessibility – MIT; OSM (ODbL), OSRM demo server, Statistik Austria (CC BY 4.0), ÖSG/GÖG, CARTO tiles
• Childcare Austria – MIT; indicators CC BY 4.0 (source: STATISTIK AUSTRIA, Kindertagesheimstatistik 2024/25), municipality boundaries ginseng666/GeoJSON-TopoJSON-Austria (CC BY 4.0)
• Grid capacity Austria – MIT; OSM (ODbL), ENTSO-E Transparency (own terms), E-Control, APG/ONIP, Austro Control, IG Windkraft, BEV cadastre (INSPIRE), data.gv.at
• Siedler Österreich – MIT; cadastre: BEV cadastral-map vector tiles (CC BY 4.0, modified), assembled live by bevdirect-serve / vtcseamless (MIT, v0.3.0), no parcel database, cache ≤ 24 h; BEV administrative boundaries VGD (CC BY 4.0); surroundings via umfeld-at: Statistik Austria, EEA Natura 2000, WDPA (UNEP-WCMC/IUCN, non-commercial only), BEV DLM names, RIS (CC BY 4.0), OSM (ODbL); land cover/heights via srtm-lidar-at (CC BY 4.0) from BEV ALS/DOP, Copernicus Sentinel-1/-2, ESA WorldCover, Hansen GFC; AMA INVEKOS fields & transparency database (CC BY 4.0, aggregated); timber: Statistik Austria, chamber timber-market reports, GFW carbon flux (CC BY 4.0); water: eHYD/WISE/Wasserschatz/EDO, MERIT-Hydro flow paths CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (display only); European Red List (facts); bundled: Austria outline geoBoundaries (CC BY-SA 4.0), fonts Press Start 2P & VT323 (SIL OFL 1.1), self-hosted. Full list with legal bases: Licences · Imprint · machine-readable /api/licenses
• 5MP.globe Conservation – MIT; derived layers CC BY 4.0 (Sentinel-2 cloudless derivatives CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, OSM-derived features ODbL), source register at /licenses
• umfeld-at – MIT (repository not yet public; cadastre stitching vtcseamless MIT); own texts and derived data (NE cells, change signal, model values) CC BY 4.0; sources: BEV cadastre vector tiles & DLM names (CC BY 4.0, aggregated/modified), Statistik Austria (CC BY 4.0, land prices modelled), EEA Natura 2000, WDPA (UNEP-WCMC/IUCN, non-commercial only), GADM (non-commercial only), OSM (ODbL), RIS (CC BY 4.0); no parcel or owner data; details at /lizenzen, machine-readable /api/v1/license
• refugeestatus.eu – MIT; facility directory compiled from public BMI and BBU information
• Farm subsidies Austria – MIT (repository not yet public); AMA/BML transparency database (Reg. (EU) 2021/2115), AMA INVEKOS fields & farmsteads via LFRZ/INSPIRE (CC BY 4.0, modified), Statistik Austria, Eurostat, BEV, EU-DEM; details at /license
• INSPIRE Austria – MIT (repository not yet public); metadata from the Austrian INSPIRE geoportal and data.gv.at (mostly CC BY 4.0); details at /lizenz
• Schools Austria – source code not yet published; data: Statistik Austria, BMBWF (CC BY 4.0 or their own terms)

Libraries used: Go (BSD-3), modernc.org/sqlite (BSD-3), SQLite (public domain), Leaflet (BSD-2), Alpine.js (MIT), Chart.js (MIT), Three.js (MIT), jsPDF (MIT), React/Vite (MIT), Font Awesome Free (CC BY 4.0 / SIL OFL / MIT), web fonts Share Tech Mono / Orbitron (SIL OFL, via Bunny Fonts), map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), © CARTO. The full list is in each repository's LICENSE file.