Data & Licensing

ADVISORY ONLY — NOT FOR NAVIGATION

All Uncharted Wires data, in every tier and format, is advisory decision-support information. It is not certified aeronautical data, it is not complete, and it must not be used as a sole source for navigation, obstacle clearance, or terrain avoidance. Absence of a marker does not mean absence of wires. Pilots remain responsible for compliance with all applicable regulations and for see-and-avoid at all times.

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The free open tier

The core location data is free, and it stays free.

What's included

• The interactive web map at flystbernard.com/resources/wires/
• Downloadable data packs for every US state and Canadian province (KML and GeoJSON)
• ForeFlight map layers and briefing waypoints (30+ regional content packs)
• The pilot wire-report channel — your reports improve the database for everyone

License terms

Free-tier layers are published under open licenses matching their provenance:

• Layers derived from OpenStreetMap are distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL). If you redistribute or build on them, ODbL share-alike terms apply.
• Layers derived from government open data (FAA DOF, HIFLD, NOAA ENC, state/provincial GIS, and similar) are distributed under their respective open-government attribution terms.

How to attribute

Wire hazard data: Uncharted Wires by Saint Bernard Aerial (flystbernard.com/resources/wires/). Contains information from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and US/Canadian government open-data sources.

Personal flight planning, safety briefings, club and CFI use, and safety-program distribution with attribution are all welcome uses of the free tier.

Commercial licensing

The free tier covers open location data. The commercial layers — proprietary multi-source reconciliation, per-feature confidence scoring, LiDAR-validated conductor positions, and the georeferenced accident-intelligence join — are available under commercial license only. The free tier does not grant rights to embed Uncharted Wires data in a commercial product or service.

Commercial offerings

• EFB / avionics / OEM data licensing — the reconciled, LiDAR-validated continental layer delivered in your ingest format, with quarterly refresh, documented QA process, and update SLA. Evaluation licenses available for a sample region.
• Insurance and actuarial feeds — retrospective claims overlays, portfolio wire-exposure scoring, territory-level risk factors built on 2,195 georeferenced NTSB/TSB wire strikes, and bundled policyholder access for loss-control programs.
• Enterprise service-area layers — for HEMS, Part 135, utility patrol, and fire aviation operators: service-area wire layers, approach-corridor wire reports, multi-seat access, and alerting on new or changed hazards.
• API access — wire geometry, confidence, and validation status queried along a route or corridor, for operational platforms and BVLOS/UAS use cases.

Terms common to all commercial licenses: no redistribution outside the licensed product, advisory-only and limitation-of-liability provisions, defined update cadence, and per-licensee data marking. We license verification, analysis, integration, and currency; we do not grant exclusivity over underlying public-source information.

To discuss commercial licensing: contact [email protected] with your organization, intended use, and coverage area. Evaluation data for a representative region can typically be arranged under a standard evaluation agreement.

Intellectual property

The reconciliation methodology, per-source weighting, confidence model, and LiDAR-validation pipeline are proprietary trade secrets and © 2026 Saint Bernard Aerial. All rights reserved. Open-source and open-government components remain under their original licenses as described above.