Free plan in an app with a paid tier: license (CC-BY-SA 4.0), personal data and attribution questions

Hello HeiGIT team,

I’m building a small web app in Peru that recommends which fuel station to refuel at, based on price and detour cost. For users on a free plan we would call the Directions API (driving-car) from our server, with a free openrouteservice token, to measure detours between a start point, a station and a destination. A paid plan, for which we would use another routing provider, is planned.

Could you confirm:

Q1) Is it allowed to use the free Standard plan inside an app that has a paid tier, as long as we stay within 2,000 Directions requests/day and 40/min?

Q2) The Terms say results are licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0. We only use distance and duration values to rank stations and show a total; we do not redistribute raw route data. Does that satisfy the license, and are we required to share our app under the same terms?

Q3) We send only coordinates (origin, station, destination), with no name or user identifier. Do you consider this “personal data” under your prohibition on transmitting personal data?

Q4) Will showing “© openrouteservice by HeiGIT | Data from OpenStreetMap” in the results screen be enough attribution?

Thank you very much.

Hey,

yes, commercial usage is allowed under the Standard Plan.

Please note that the results are licensed as CC-BY-SA 4.0, so any terms of the License applies to usage of the results. HeiGIT is not qualified to answer questions regarding to licensing details.

Whether the information you transfer in your requests is considered personal data cannot be determined by HeiGIT. Please pay attention to our Terms of Service regarding this.

All information about attribution can also be found there.

Best regards