Data sources & licences
Hammersmith.info is an independent community site. We use publicly licensed data and always show attribution. This is not an NHS, Met Police, TfL or council service.
Emergency disclaimer
In a life-threatening emergency call 999. For medical advice when it is not an emergency use 111. Information on this site may be incomplete or out of date — verify critical details with the official provider before travelling.
Sources we use
| Dataset | Provider | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Tube / rail / bus stops & arrivals, line status, road disruptions | TfL Unified API | TfL Open Data Licence — “Powered by TfL Open Data”. Contains OS data © Crown copyright. |
| GPs & pharmacies (locations) | OpenStreetMap | ODbL 1.0 — © OpenStreetMap contributors. We link to NHS.uk for official service info; we do not invent phone numbers or opening hours. |
| Police neighbourhoods | police.uk API | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Police front counters | Metropolitan Police published summaries | Cited pages / PDFs on met.police.uk — hours may change |
| Fire stations | London Fire Brigade | Public web pages (addresses) |
| Hospital A&E status | NHS.uk & NHS trust sites | Facts verified against published pages; not NHS open data extracts |
| Weather | Open-Meteo | Open-Meteo terms (free non-commercial / attribution) |
| Thames gauge | Environment Agency flood monitoring | Open Government Licence |
| Map tiles | OpenStreetMap standard tiles | © OpenStreetMap contributors — attribution on map |
| Photography | Wikimedia Commons & Pexels | See image credits (PD / CC BY / CC BY-SA / Pexels Licence) |
What we do not do
- We do not scrape Google Maps or other terms-restricted sources.
- We do not invent phone numbers, opening hours, clinical advice or live incident status.
- We do not publish George Morina’s personal mobile number on any page.
Coverage refresh (Phase 2 fix)
- GP practices & pharmacies — NHS England Organisation Data Service (ORD API roles RO177/RO76 and RO182), active records only, filtered to the LBHF borough boundary via postcodes.io geocoding + point-in-polygon. Linked to nhs.uk service search by ODS code. Licence: OGL v3.0.
- Bus stops & stations — TfL StopPoint API, queried across the borough bbox then clipped to the official boundary; routes listed per stop. Licence: TfL Open Data Licence (contains OS data).
- Borough boundary — ONS Local Authority Districts (May 2024) BGC for E09000013 (Hammersmith and Fulham), OGL v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright. Drawn faintly on the map.
- Basemap — OpenFreeMap Liberty style via MapLibre GL (no API key). Attribution: OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles · data from OpenStreetMap. Not using openstreetmap.org tile servers.