mongolmaps: data sources and licences
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The package source code is under the MIT licence (see LICENSE). The data
shipped with the package, or downloaded by it, keep the licences of their
providers. Please credit them when you publish maps; mn_citation() returns
suitable text and mn_map() adds it as a caption.

Bundled with the package
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Administrative boundaries (country, regions, aimags, soums, UB districts)
  Common Operational Dataset - Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) for
  Mongolia, National Statistics Office of Mongolia and the United Nations
  Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
  https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mng
  Licence: Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations
  (CC BY-IGO 3.0). Simplified for the package; economic regions dissolved
  from aimags; soum MN8337 (Tsengel) re-coded from COD MN8340 to match NSO.

Ulaanbaatar khoroo boundaries (unofficial)
  khoroo-map, https://github.com/Tuvshin-Level/khoroo-map (commit
  bb1bf18f27e57d7a5aa7fe6d4a17234b40e162c1).
  Licence: BSD Zero Clause (0BSD). The upstream project does not state the
  origin of the data. Fitted to the COD Ulaanbaatar outline, with gaps and
  overlaps resolved (data-raw/khoroo_reconciliation.csv). The district
  boundaries of Ulaanbaatar are the unions of these khoroos.

Unit codes and names (country to bag and khoroo)
  National Statistics Office of Mongolia, PXWeb table DT_NSO_0300_002V4,
  https://data.1212.mn/pxweb/ (Region dimension and example population).

Settlements (capital, aimag and soum centres)
  Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org/. Licence: CC0 1.0.

Neighbouring countries, major rivers and lakes
  Natural Earth, https://www.naturalearthdata.com/. Public domain.

Downloaded on first use
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Full-resolution administrative boundaries
  Same sources and licences as the bundled boundaries, without
  simplification; hosted as a GitHub release asset of the package.

Roads, railways, stations, airports, waterways, water bodies and places
  (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
  exports on the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Licence: Open Database Licence
  (ODbL 1.0), https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. Each theme is
  a separate database file, hosted as a GitHub release asset.

Elevation, 1 km
  Copernicus DEM GLO-90, (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and (c) Airbus Defence and
  Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and
  ESA; all rights reserved. Free to use and redistribute with attribution.
  Resampled to a 1 km grid; hosted as a GitHub release asset.

Land cover, 1 km
  ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200, (c) ESA WorldCover project / contains
  modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by the ESA WorldCover
  consortium. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Majority class per 1 km cell; hosted as a
  GitHub release asset.

Read or downloaded from the original provider (never redistributed)
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Elevation, 90 m, and land cover, 10 m
  Read on demand from the AWS Open Data Registry copies of the Copernicus
  DEM GLO-90 and ESA WorldCover (licences as above).

Population grids 2015-2030
  WorldPop (www.worldpop.org), Global 2015-2030 constrained population
  counts, release R2025A. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Protected areas
  UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected
  Areas (WDPA), https://www.protectedplanet.net/. Terms:
  https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal (non-commercial use with
  attribution; no redistribution). Downloaded by each user on first use.

The sources, licences and delivery of every layer are listed by
mn_sources().