Credits & Sources

CoasterRidr is built on openly-licensed data and the work of an enthusiast community. We record the source and license on every single record. Below are the sources we draw on and the exact terms under which we use them.

Individual facts — a coaster's height, speed or opening year — aren't copyrightable, so we gather them independently from open and primary sources, the same way the hobby's databases always have. Where a source's text or compilation is licensed under CC BY-SA, any data we derive from it is attributed here and shared back under the same license (see ShareAlike below). We never import data from rcdb.com.

Coasterpedia — primary source

Much of our coaster and amusement-park data comes from Coasterpedia — The Amusement Ride Wiki, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. We read structured ride infoboxes through Coasterpedia's public MediaWiki API at a respectful rate with an identifying user-agent (its robots.txt permits this; we do not use its content to train AI models). Changes we make: we extract individual fields, convert metric measurements to imperial, normalize names and statuses, and reformat the data into our schema. Records sourced this way are stamped source: Coasterpediaand, per ShareAlike, the derived data is offered back under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our thanks to Coasterpedia's editors and contributors.

Wikipedia

Park coaster rosters, manufacturer build lists and individual ride articles are drawn from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. We extract the factual statistics stated in an article, convert units, and fit them to our schema; the derived data is shared back under the same license. Records are stamped source: Wikipedia. Text is © Wikipedia contributors.

Wikidata

Structured coaster and park data — names, manufacturers, locations and stats — sourced via the Wikidata Query Service. Wikidata is released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. Records sourced this way are stamped source: Wikidata.

OpenStreetMap

Park locations and map geometry come from OpenStreetMap — map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Map tiles on the map are served from OpenStreetMap-based tile providers under their respective terms.

Wikimedia Commons

Photography, where available, comes from Wikimedia Commons. Each photo carries its own credit and license (CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA), shown beside the image. Coasters without a Commons photo keep a styled placeholder.

Queue-Times

Live wait times are provided by the free public Queue-Times.com API.

The community

Corrections and new entries come from enthusiasts who submit and improve records. If you spot something wrong, please tell us — every fix helps.

ShareAlike

To the extent CoasterRidr's database incorporates material derived from CC BY-SA sources (Coasterpedia and Wikipedia), that derived data is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are free to share and adapt it, with attribution to CoasterRidr and the original sources, under the same license.