• Downloading and using them for your own ride.
• Transferring them to your navigation device or navigation app.
• Passing on individual routes — with the provenance details kept in the file.
• Any further use of the route geometry under the terms of the ODbL, in particular with attribution of the OpenStreetMap contributors. Commercial use included — you do not need to ask us.

• Taking over, redistributing or rebuilding the collection — our routes as a body of content on another portal, in a download package, in an app or in a database of your own. This applies to substantial parts just as much as to the repeated, systematic extraction of smaller amounts (§ 87b UrhG).
• Taking over route descriptions and images — more on this below; separate rules apply to each.
• Removing provenance details or altering them (§ 95c UrhG).
• Automated retrieval (scraping) — see Terms and Conditions § 5a.

The route geometry is largely derived from OpenStreetMap data: pass nodes and the place index come from there, and our own router calculates the road course on that basis. The following therefore applies: © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL).

We pass on the route geometry under exactly those terms. Anyone who reuses it enters into the ODbL — with everything it permits and with the obligations it imposes: attribution, and, if you publicly offer a database derived from it, once again under the ODbL.

The route descriptions are produced by machine and are editorially checked and signed off before publication. They are not released for reuse. The fact that machine-generated text as such attracts no copyright changes nothing here: what is protected is the collection, and even the systematic extraction of its contents is prohibited.

The images come from members or from freely licensed collections, mostly Wikimedia Commons. The credit appears directly beside each image: author, source and licence, with a link to the licence text. If you wish to reuse such an image, the licence named there by the respective photographer applies — not this page. Images from members are not released at all; they were entrusted to us for publication on nbnl.de, not for passing on to third parties.

Routes submitted by members remain with their authors; NBNL publishes them on the basis of the terms for uploads. For further use by third parties, the rules on this page apply in the same way.

Every downloaded route carries markers proving its origin: the rights details in the file header, a signed identifier and a fingerprint in the route geometry itself. The fingerprint shifts individual points by less than 1.2 metres — below the accuracy of any GPS receiver, with no effect whatsoever on navigation. It survives the removal of the metadata and conversion between file formats.

We use these markers in order to be able to prove where our routes came from. They contain no information about you personally — only an identifier for the route itself.

Routes are provided without warranty. Road condition, closures, passability and traffic rules change; signage and the situation on the ground take precedence over any file. Responsibility for the ride lies solely with the person riding.

We adapt these terms when the legal situation, our data sources or our offering change. For a file you have already downloaded, the version stated in its file header continues to apply. The date of the current version appears at the top and at the foot of this page.

Would you like to use the collection as a whole, take over our texts and images, or integrate the routes into an offering of your own? Write to us at info@nbnl.de — licences beyond these terms are possible.