Credits
A d8way plan is mostly other people's work, carefully arranged. Here is all of it, named properly — several of these licences require exactly that, and we'd want to anyway.
Last updated 5 August 2026 · questions to hello@d8way.com
01The places
Every venue in every engineered plan — the restaurants, the bars, the viewpoints, the parks, their coordinates and whatever opening hours a mapper took the trouble to record. Queried through the public Overpass API at one request per city per day, cached, with a descriptive user agent, because Overpass is a donated service and its maintainers have asked people not to lean on it. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
02Tonight's sky
The forecast behind every weather chip and every Plan B: temperature, cloud, and the chance of rain in your window, for the city and day you picked. Free for non-commercial and low-volume use, cached per city and day so we ask once.
Sunset, sunrise, golden hour, and the moon's phase and illumination — computed locally from the city's coordinates and time zone rather than fetched, which is why the numbers are right for the city you're standing in and not for UTC.
Evaluates OpenStreetMap's opening_hours syntax against the actual slot of your evening. It is the reason a plan can say a kitchen seats until 23:00, and the reason it says nothing at all when the tag is missing.
03The photographs
Real photographs of real places, found by matching a venue's name against geotagged files nearby. Commons photography is overwhelmingly CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, which require naming the photographer and the licence — so every photo on a plan carries its own credit line directly underneath it, linking to the file page. This page does not replace those; it names the archive they come from.
Followed from a venue's wikidata tag to its P18 image claim, when it has one. In central Athens, two venues out of 196 did.
When we cannot find a photograph of the specific place — the common case, not the failure case — the ticket shows one of nineteen frames from Commons. Every one of them is deliberately PLACE-AMBIGUOUS: a candle, a strand of lights, water with the moon in it, a grill with one flame up through the smoke, two silhouettes over a city at sunset. None of them can be wrong about which city you are in, which is a rule we added after an Athens plan turned up wearing a photograph of a German street. A stock photo is never presented as a picture of a particular venue. Each is named below, and the ticket credits the one it used.
- A hand tipping a bottle into a row of small glasses by candlelight — Jack Oughton · CC BY-SA 3.0
- A candle in a turned holder on a long timber table, lamps blurred behind it — Victorgrigas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- A single tealight burning on dark wood, more flames out of focus behind — Raphaël Bacco · CC BY 3.0
- A table laid for two under a small brass lamp, warm lights out of focus behind — PattayaPatrol · CC BY-SA 4.0
- A candle burning inside a wrought-iron lantern, darkness all round it — Sabalo22 · CC0 / public domain
- A strand of lights sagging across the dark, every bulb a soft disc — Alysa Bajenaru · CC0 / public domain
- Out-of-focus lights floating low against a deep blue night — Jason Zhang · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Boats at their moorings at night, one lamp drawing a long streak across still water — Tristan Ferris · CC BY 2.0
- The moon behind cloud, its light running in a bronze path across the water to an empty shore — Giuseppe Milo · CC BY 3.0
- A still lake holding the reflection of a sky full of stars, dark trees on both shores — Wil Stewart · CC0 / public domain
- A half moon glowing through a break in dark cloud — W.carter · CC0 / public domain
- The moon burning through cloud over glassy dark water, one small lamp on the far shore — W.carter · CC0 / public domain
- People standing in silhouette along a ridge under a sky of torn cloud at dusk — Hudson Hintze · CC0 / public domain
- Worn steps climbing between stone walls towards a single lantern, mist crossing its light — George N · CC BY 2.0
- Two people close together at a railing, silhouetted against a rose sunset over a bay and a city of lights — Paul Gilmore · CC0 / public domain
- Two glasses of rosé glowing against the setting sun, flowers out of focus behind them — photo-nic.co.uk nic chiro · CC0 / public domain
- A charcoal grill crowded with sausages and cuts of meat at night, one flame licking up through the smoke — Oliver Propst · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Someone at a window seat after dark, the street beyond dissolved into warm and red points of light — Sean Witzke · CC0 / public domain
- A single enamel street lamp on a wooden pole, wires crossing a near-black sky — Sven Scheuermeier · CC0 / public domain
04The map
The dark-matter basemap tiles under the route map on an unlocked plan. Attribution is restyled to fit a dark ticket, never hidden — both CARTO's terms and the ODbL require the credit to stay visible, which is why that little pill in the corner of the map is not removable.
Renders the map and the dashed route line. The component wrapping it began as a vendored map component from 21st.dev / @mapcn, with three marked lines changed to fix a style-load race.
Two narrow uses. Ratings and review counts for the optional top-rated toggle, fetched by category search and cached per place for a day. And the deep links that hand your route to Google Maps or Apple Maps when you leave for the evening — those are ordinary URLs and cost nothing.
05The words, the type, the machinery
Arranges the shortlist into an evening and writes the prose. It never invents a venue: grounding is enforced in our code afterwards, and a stop that doesn't match a real candidate within a set distance is rejected outright. It is a writer working from a fact sheet, not a source.
Every heading, by Andrew Paglinawan. Its terminals are rounded and its letterforms are close to circles — which is the same shape the mark is drawn from.
Everything you read that isn't a heading or a number, including the italic asides. By Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly.
Clock times and prices, and nothing else.
06And one unlicensable thing
None of the above exists because someone was paid to make it. Thousands of people walked around their own cities marking down where the tavernas are, photographed a hillside at the right hour and gave the picture away, and maintained a free API that answers questions about the whole planet. A small paid product built on top of that owes them the credit at minimum.
If you spot a credit that's wrong, missing, or attached to the wrong photograph, tell us — that's a bug and we'll treat it like one. Our own terms are on the terms page.
Written by the two of us, not by a template. If a line here is unclear or reads as though it is hiding something, tell us and we'll rewrite it — hello@d8way.com.