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The routines to calculate Latitude and Longitude from Grid References, and vice versa was taken from "Transverse Mercator Projection Calculations" by H.Whitfield (Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), available from his web site and copyright 1989-1996 by H.Whitfield. Used under the clause "You are welcome to copy the program or extract parts from it as you wish".

Edit distance calculation (used in checking for misspelled places) is based on code posted to comp.compilers and comp.editors on 18 November 1999 by Joseph H Allen (jhallen@world.std.net). He credits the algorithm to James Gosling.

Sorting of Linked lists (the list of waterways in a region for example) is done using a merge sort posted to comp.lang.c by Chris Torek (torek@bsdi.com) on 3 June 2000 and placed in the public domain; this in turn was based on code that originally was posted to comp.lang.c.moderated in May 2000 by Ray Gardner (rgardner@nyx.net). Slightly modified by myself to suit the lists being sorted.

Metaphone and Soundex, used for guessing at misspelled places, are from snippets. From the code we learn:

The Metaphone algorithm was developed by Lawrence Phillips. Like the Soundex algorithm, it compares words that sound alike but are spelled differently. Metaphone was designed to overcome difficulties encountered with Soundex. This implementation was written by Gary A. Parker and originally published in the June/July, 1991 (vol. 5 nr. 4) issue of C Gazette. As published, this code was explicitly placed in the public domain by the author.

The soundex code is labelled as Public domain from Bob Jarvis

I've also used code from snippets for calculating the date of Easter. This is public domain by Ed Bernal.

Sunrise, sunset and phases of the moon calculations are done using code extracted from the xtide distribution. The vast majority of this is actually stuff modified from skycalc, so it has now gone from old-style C (K & R Edition 1) functions, to C++, to modern C. Skycalc is available from ftp://iraf.noao.edu/contrib/skycal.tar. Program copyright 1993, John Thorstensen, Dartmouth College. Permission hereby granted for scientific/educational use. I've used the modified versions of the code from XTide. Xtide is Copyright (C) 1998 David Flater and is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. The author makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

XML parsing is carried out using James Clark's expat library. The license conditions for this state:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

PNG format icons (used for linear maps) are produced using the gd graphics library. Credits and license terms:

In order to resolve any possible confusion regarding the authorship of gd, the following copyright statement covers all of the authors who have required such a statement. If you are aware of any oversights in this copyright notice, please contact Thomas Boutell who will be pleased to correct them. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT FOLLOWS THIS LINE Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant P41-RR02188 by the National Institutes of Health.

Portions copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Boutell.Com, Inc.

Portions relating to GD2 format copyright 1999, 2000 Philip Warner.

Portions relating to PNG copyright 1999, 2000 Greg Roelofs.

Portions relating to libttf copyright 1999, 2000 John Ellson (ellson@lucent.com).

Portions relating to JPEG and to color quantization copyright 2000, Doug Becker and copyright (C) 1994-1998, Thomas G. Lane. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. See the file README-JPEG.TXT for more information.

Portions relating to WBMP copyright 2000 Maurice Szmurlo and Johan Van den Brande.

Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in any context without fee, including a commercial application, provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting documentation.

This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions, ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation.

This software is provided "AS IS." The copyright holders disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying documentation.

Although their code does not appear in gd 2.0.1, the authors wish to thank David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation for their prior contributions.

Hash tables (used for variables in the scripting language) are generated using hashlib by C.B. Falconer - released under the GNU General Public License

See the software tools page for info on Free Software Foundation code

Databases are implemented using "Berkeley DB" from Sleepycat Software. The terms and conditions for this, as used in this application, are as follows:

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I've based some of the menu javascript on the examples at www.quirksmode.org. There is no requirement to credit them, but I'm going to, as it was such a breath of fresh air to find a Javascript site that wasn't trying to sell a few dozen, not very good lines of code, for a "mere" few $00

Conversion of Excel data into CVS - as part of the build process - is done using xls2cvs from Vitus Wagner at http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc

Google Maps are supported by a number of excellent sites. I have made particular use (apart from Google's own documentation) of an excellent tutorial on all aspects from Mike Willaims of the Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team. There is also a very useful wiki dedicated to Google Maps.

Autocomplete code is based on actb from http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/jsactb.asp but with the back-end AJAX stuff added by myself. The code was licensed under the Creative Commons license.

Javascript compression is done using jsmin by Douglas Crockford