Terms of Service

All data are distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. In particular, permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this data and associated documentation files, to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial use only, all subject to the following:

Understand that these data are created by crowdsourcing and machine learning and will - by design - contain errors. It comes as is without any warranty. We do not guarantee the quality and reliability of this dataset and assume no responsibility whatsoever for any direct or indirect damage and loss caused by use of this dataset or damages for users due to changing, deleting or terminating the provision of this dataset.
The provided copyright and permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the data. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
The authors are acknowledged appropriately and changes must be indicated. The persons referred to as authors developed the original training dataset.

Declaration of Consent

By submitting your LCZ Training Areas you consent to the saving of your name and e-mail address by the working group Urban Climatology at Ruhr University Bochum. Your name and e-mail address are saved to give credit and inform about the completion in the processing and processor version updates. Your data is saved for as long as you do not revoke your consent. Legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 Section1a EU GDPR. You can revoke your consent to our data policy at any time by sending an e-mail to lcz-generator@rub.de. All other information concerning your data can be found in our Privacy Note