Credits

Photography & images

We credit photographers and sources for transparency. Unsplash stock images below are used under the Unsplash License; attribution is not required by the licence, but we list it here.

• Hero image (homepage background)
  Contributor photo: Steve Poole aka Stavioni (Flickr album).
• Stock image (Learn, Help default Open Graph, and retained for reuse)
  Red mail box on street during daytime, Camellia Yang on Unsplash
• Marketing section image (heritage card on the homepage)
  Contributor photo: Steve Poole aka Stavioni (Flickr album).

Identification guide photos

Images in the identification guide are a mix of PostboxMap contributor submissions and credited stock photos (see each line).

• Type A (contributor)
  Emma H · Map listing
• Type B (contributor)
  Keepmepostboxed · Map listing
• Type C (contributor)
  JPG · Map listing
• Double Type G (contributor)
  JPG · Map listing
• Type G (contributor)
  John from the Coast · Map listing
• Fluted pillar (contributor)
  Luke · Map listing
• Standard Penfold (contributor)
  Emma · Map listing
• Indoor pillar (contributor)
  Emma H · Map listing
• Type L (contributor)
  Noah · Map listing
• Type M (contributor)
  Paulf · Map listing
• LB206 (GR crown and small cipher) – loaf / Hovis-style (contributor)
  John from the Coast · Map listing
• LB212 (1936 revised 1935 Pattern) – waggon top (contributor)
  postboxesofinsta · Map listing
• LB216 (Carron Company Stirlingshire) – Carron Stirlingshire (contributor)
  Keith Stroud · Map listing
• LB223 (Machan Scotland, Royal Mail) – modern flat (contributor)
  Stavioni · Map listing
• LB224 (Type N Bantam) – Bantam (contributor)
  Keith Stroud · Map listing
• LB3426 (Stainless steel, RM Manufacturing) – stainless RM (contributor)
  Keith Stroud · Map listing
• Type K early (1980–mid production) (contributor)
  Stavioni · Map listing
• First National Standard (contributor)
  postboxesofinsta · Map listing
• Second National Standard (contributor)
  Keepmepostboxed · Map listing
• Type A Wall Box (contributor)
  marxistnarnian · Map listing
• Type B Wall Box (contributor)
  Angella · Map listing
• Type C Wall Box (contributor)
  Keepmepostboxed · Map listing
• Royal Mail Business Box (contributor)
  Emma · Map listing
• Size A (contributor)
  postboxesofinsta · Map listing
• LB213 (1940 Pattern) (example) (stock photo)
  Dan Sellers, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
• Parcel box (small parcels, example) (stock photo)
  Tyssil, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Reference · Type D (1931 oval combination with stamp vending machine) (stock photo)
  British Postal Museum & Archive via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
• Reference · Type E (1931 oval combination with stamp vending machine) (stock photo)
  Spudgun67, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Reference · Liverpool Special pillar box (c1863) (stock photo)
  DM · PostboxMap listing
• Reference · Case CI Type H or J (SVM housing on pillar; not map Type H or J) (stock photo)
  Mike Quinn, Geograph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Maps & geocoding

Map tiles and geodata are provided by OpenStreetMap. Address lookup (reverse geocoding) uses Nominatim.

• © OpenStreetMap contributors : map data and tiles (explore map, location maps, minimap).
• Nominatim : reverse geocoding for address/place names when adding a postbox or viewing a postbox location (usage policy).

Mapping software

Interactive maps are built with the following open-source libraries and assets.

• Leaflet : JavaScript map library (BSD-2-Clause). Used with React-Leaflet.
• Leaflet.markercluster : marker clustering on the map (MIT).
• Leaflet.Locatecontrol : “find my location” button (MIT).
• leaflet-color-markers (pointhi): coloured map marker icons (MIT).

Fonts

The site uses the Inter typeface for body text and UI.

• Inter : designed by Rasmus Andersson, served via Google Fonts (SIL Open Font License).

Other

Logo, identification-guide SVGs (royal cyphers), favicons, and default placeholder images are project-owned or created for PostboxMap. Some achievement badge images are from Vecteezy. Default map marker pin imagery is from the Leaflet project (see Mapping software).