Data sources
VenueStats builds 1,555 pages for 989 venues from the sources below. None of them is copied wholesale: facts are read, checked against one another and joined, as described on the Methodology page. The figures here are counted from the database when the site is built.
Open Topo Data
Elevation at each venue's coordinates, from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data served by Open Topo Data.
Venue pages cite it directly for 953 elevations.
Public domain.
OpenStreetMap
Street addresses and the map tiles under each venue's location map.
Venue pages cite it directly for 105 facts about what stands on a closed venue's site.
Published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL); credit is given on every page that uses it.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim
Street addresses, reverse-geocoded from each venue's coordinates with the Nominatim service. The location maps use OpenStreetMap tiles.
Venue pages cite it directly for 943 addresses.
Published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL); credit is given on every page that uses it.
Sports Reference
Team histories: which franchises used which names, and when, and which seasons each team played. Where Sports Reference and Wikipedia disagree about a team name, a name era or a franchise's history, Sports Reference wins unless there is a specific reason not to.
The facts are recorded here; its pages are not reproduced.
VenueStats
Venue locations, capacities, and details.
Venue pages cite it directly for 36 facts about what stands on a closed venue's site.
VenueStats compilation
The joins VenueStats makes itself: which team played in which venue in which seasons, how a venue's names line up in time, and the checks that reconcile the sources above, and the coordinates no outside source confirms. See the Methodology.
Venue pages cite it directly for 92 coordinates.
Wikidata
Structured facts attached to each venue: capacities for different layouts, architects and operators. Its dated tenancies and its coordinates are used to check ours: a venue page says when Wikidata puts the building at the same point.
Venue pages cite it directly for 864 coordinates, 621 capacity figures, 481 architect and operator credits.
Published under CC0, a public domain dedication.
Wikimedia Commons
Venue photographs. Each is shown with its author and licence, which Commons records file by file.
Venue pages cite it directly for 668 photographs.
Licensed file by file; each licence is shown beside the photograph.
Wikipedia
Venue articles: opening and closing years, capacities, name history and the teams that played in each building. Each venue page links its article for further reading.
Venue pages cite it directly for 513 capacity figures, 3 facts about what stands on a closed venue's site.
Text published under CC BY-SA.
How citations work on venue pages
Every figure that comes from a source is stored with that source and, where there is one, the exact page it was read from. Each venue page ends with a Sources section that groups the facts on that page under the source behind them, and links each fact to its page. League pages summarise the same thing for the venues in their tables. The capacity on a venue page also names its source beside the number. The same list is published as citation data for search engines.
Teams, name eras and opening and closing years are not stored as one source's claim. VenueStats joins them from several sources, so they are credited to the compilation and link to the Methodology.
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