Sources & methods

The verification process

• Find: candidate places come from OpenStreetMap and editorial research.
• Confirm: each fact is checked on the place's official website or a government page. Our software re-fetches every cited page and keeps a fact only if the page actually states it, following each site's robots.txt.
• Review: ambiguous, conflicting or thinly sourced listings go to a human review queue instead of being published.
• Recheck: listings are scheduled for reverification. Changes found on recheck are reviewed before they appear.

Source registry

• OpenStreetMap — Coordinates and candidate leads. Attribution shown on maps and the sources page. Licence/terms: ODbL 1.0. Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors
• Official website — Facts (address, phone, hours, admission) confirmed on the place's own website. Descriptions are written by our editors. Licence/terms: Facts only (not copyrightable); text not copied
• Government website — City, county, state or federal pages (parks departments, transit agencies, airports). Licence/terms: Facts only; Florida public records
• Visit Orlando — Official destination marketing organization; used only as a secondary source. Licence/terms: Facts only; secondary source
• Sunshine Visitor Guide editors — Summaries and descriptions written by our editors from verified facts. Licence/terms: Original content
• U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder — Map coordinates interpolated from TIGER/Line address ranges for listings with a verified street address. Licence/terms: Public domain (U.S. government work)

Maps

Maps use OpenFreeMap tiles built from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Map locations for some listings come from OpenStreetMap and Nominatim.

Bot policy

Our verification crawler identifies itself as SunshineVisitorGuideBot, respects robots.txt, fetches one page at a time per site and never bypasses logins or bot protection. Site owners can contact us to correct or remove information.