This is the publication boundary, not an inventory of everything we may hold or research. Follow The Vines transforms six approved open datasets into route and historical-weather evidence. Other facts are linked to their named sources, and editorial judgements stay labelled as editorial.
Rights last reviewed . The site publishes a small, dated derivative rather than raw R2 archives or a downloadable source database. Sources fail closed unless the machine-readable ledger approves the exact public purpose and fields.
| Dataset | Licence | Commercial use | Derivatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap map data Attribution is required; share-alike applies to a public derivative database. | ODbL 1.0 | Yes | Yes |
| NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network Daily Public-domain US Government observations; this release publishes qualified 1991–2020 monthly station summaries, not the raw archive. | United States federal open data | Yes | Yes |
| GeoNames geographical database Fixed settlement records are used as transparent regional anchors for the nearest-station join. | CC BY 4.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Environment Agency flood-monitoring stations A dated station-directory snapshot supports named nearby monitoring links for the Sussex and Kent guide. | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Environment Agency current-flood records Only the England-wide record count and snapshot date may be shown, with an explicit warning that it is not a present or future safety guarantee. | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Environment Agency catchment classifications The release publishes 2019 overall water-body status counts for four named management catchments as dated landscape context. | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available under the Open Database License. Public route figures are produced works; any public derivative database remains subject to the ODbL terms.
Historical weather uses NOAA GHCN-Daily station observations and GeoNames settlement anchors. England context contains Environment Agency information under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Exact snapshot dates, coverage limits and what each value cannot mean are shown on the historical weather pages.
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Wine bodies, public authorities, tourism institutions and UNESCO pages support specific factual context. Each region guide links the sources it uses. We cite and summarise those pages; we do not present them as one open dataset or claim a blanket reuse licence for their content.
OpenStreetMap coordinates and road data were processed once with OSRM, open-source routing software under its BSD 2-Clause licence. Figures are not live traffic and may not reflect closures.
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licence on each file: CC BY, CC BY-SA or public domain. The photographer, source file and exact licence travel with every image on its guide, following Wikimedia Commons reuse guidance.
Best-month windows, trip shapes, transport labels and comparisons remain transparent editorial judgements. Historical monthly normals are displayed separately from those recommendations and are never treated as a live forecast, user rating or opaque score.
The site uses one Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon and one central Google Analytics 4 tag (G-SWVLQ1LFZ7) on clean, canonical HTML pages. Both are absent from APIs, errors, preview hosts and query variants. There is no second GA4 property and no Google Tag Manager container.
If a source, route figure or attribution looks wrong or stale, use the contact details on this site and include the Follow The Vines page URL, the disputed field and a supporting source. Submissions are checked before publication.
These gates were present in the approved importer plan but did not pass acquisition or publication review for Follow The Vines. No fields from them appear in the site.
| Source | Status | Why it is not used |
|---|---|---|
| GBIF occurrence bulk download ↗ | Unavailable | the importer requires credentials and a bounded taxon-and-geography query before an asynchronous bulk job can be approved. |
| Commercial manuals, prices and reviews | Unavailable | the importer gate has no site-specific commercial publication rights, freshness contract or approved public field projection. |
| Copernicus climate bulk data ↗ | Unavailable | credentials and a bounded product, variable, geography and period scope are required. |
| Energy Performance of Buildings register bulk data ↗ | Unavailable | credentials, terms and address/postcode publication restrictions require a separate review. |
| Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 transfer ↗ | Unavailable | the official upstream returned HTTP 403 from Cloudflare egress during import. |
| OFAC SDN Cloudflare transfer ↗ | Unavailable | the official CSV endpoint returned TLS 525 from Cloudflare egress during import. |
Private or commercial feeds and review-gated storage holdings are excluded from this site. That includes accommodation, prices, reviews and book-related content as well as unapproved vineyard-parcel, soil and climate layers. Possession in storage is not permission to publish.
Follow The Vines does not designate or license its editorial record set as a public dataset distribution, so this page deliberately carries no Dataset structured data. The safe public machine interface remains the small, editorial regions API, with the same source links and no private fields.