Data sources

Data sources and attribution

OpenStreetMap

Campsites, motorhome aires, motorhome parking, sanitary dump stations and water points are © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0.

We select OpenStreetMap objects tagged tourism=camp_site, tourism=caravan_site, amenity=parking with motorhome=yes|designated, amenity=sanitary_dump_station and amenity=water_point, then normalise fees, services, capacity, height limits and opening hours. Places marked private or disused are left out.

Share-alike

Our places database is a derivative database of OpenStreetMap. Under the ODbL, if you publicly use or share a database derived from ours you must make it available under the ODbL too, and keep the attribution "© OpenStreetMap contributors". Maps and pages we produce from it (produced works) carry that attribution. We intend to publish our derived places database under the ODbL as a download.

Last imports

Fixing data

Every place page links to the object on OpenStreetMap with an "Edit on OpenStreetMap" link. Corrections made there reach Campervan Atlas at the next import.

GeoNames

Countries, regions and towns come from GeoNames, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. For the United Kingdom and Ireland we use counties (GeoNames admin level 2) as regions. Last imported 8 October 2026.

Map tiles

Interactive maps use vector tiles and styles from OpenFreeMap, built from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenMapTiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors). Static map previews on our pages are drawn from our own copy of OpenStreetMap data.

Recreation.gov (RIDB)

Campgrounds in the United States listed "via Recreation.gov" come from the Recreation Information Database (RIDB), data source: ridb.recreation.gov. We use RIDB's public data download under the RIDB API Access Agreement. Reservable campgrounds link to their page on Recreation.gov; others link to the managing agency's own website.

Federal agencies provide RIDB data and are responsible for its quality; some of it may be missing or incomplete. We don't use Recreation.gov photos. Campervan Atlas is not affiliated with or endorsed by Recreation.gov, its operator or the U.S. Government.

Partner listings

Vehicles and campsites for hire are supplied by approved partners through our Partner API. Each listing names the partner and the time it was last updated. Partners are responsible for the accuracy of their listings. Ratings from partners are not shown as review stars.