Credits and licenses
Almost nothing on this site was made from nothing. These are the photographers and the public bodies whose work it is built on, and the license each piece is used under.
This page is not a courtesy. The photographs below are used under Creative Commons licenses that require the creator to be named and the license to be linked. Printing that here is the condition on which we are allowed to use them at all.
Photographs
Every photograph on this site is Creative Commons Attribution or public domain, sourced from Wikimedia Commons. None is share-alike, and that was a filter rather than luck — share-alike asks adaptations to carry the same license, and this site sells advertising.
Each is resized and re-encoded to WebP. No crops are baked in: tiles crop with CSS, which is display rather than a derivative. Where an image was altered beyond that, it says so.
| Photograph | By | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The entrance of the Boca Raton Museum of Art — the guide to things to do with kids Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Emilyenjoysbooks | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A house among palms in Boca Raton — the property tax and homestead guide Illustrates the guide; nothing is claimed about whose house it is. | pasa47 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A United States Post Office in Boca Raton, July 2019 — the ZIP codes guide Cropped from 1:1 to 3:2 around the post office frontage. | pasa47 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A tile-roofed house in Pearl City, Boca Raton, June 2010 — the roof replacement guide Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. Illustrates the guide; nothing is claimed about the house or its roof. | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A street and its grass strip in Pearl City, Boca Raton, June 2010 — the yard rules guide Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| The palm avenue at Mizner Park, June 2010 — the guide to hiring a landscaper Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A hurricane evacuation route sign near Boca Raton — the hurricane-season guide Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Juliancolton | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| A downtown Boca Raton street — the trash and recycling guide | pasa47 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| The Tri-Rail platform at Boca Raton — the getting-around guide Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Sharon Hahn Darlin | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| The former Boca Raton Public Library building, downtown — the library-card guide The former library building, not a current branch; the label says so. Cropped from 4:3 to 3:2. | Cpusf | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| A City of Boca Raton sign — the guide to which Boca Raton you are in | normanack | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Boca Raton's historic Town Hall — the building-permit guide It illustrates the guide; it is not where permits are pulled. The label on the picture names the building rather than implying an errand happens there. | Spudgun67 | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Sanborn Square — the water-bill guide Civic ground downtown, labeled as the square. Not a payment location. | Spudgun67 | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Sugar Sand Park — the venue tile for events held there Photographed May 2008. It stands for Sugar Sand Park Community Center, the Children's Science Explorium and the Willow Theatre, which are rooms in that park — the tile names the park rather than a room the picture does not show. | FunctioningMemberOfSociety | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Beach and palms — the homepage header | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Mizner Park — the Restaurants tile | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Gumbo Limbo boardwalk — the Events tile | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Looking south along the beach — the Things To Do tile | Juliancolton | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Shopfronts — the Businesses tile | pasa47 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| The city from the air — the Community tile | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Boca at night across the water — the News tile Brightened when encoded (+62% luminance, slight contrast and saturation trim); the original renders as a near-black rectangle at this size. No crop and no compositing. | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for the site card, used by every page without a section of its own A derivative of "hero-beach": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Events A derivative of "gumbo-boardwalk": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Businesses A derivative of "street": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | pasa47 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Restaurants A derivative of "mizner-fountain": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Infrogmation of New Orleans | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Things To Do A derivative of "beach": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Juliancolton | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Guides A derivative of "yacht": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for Community A derivative of "yacht": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Open Graph card for News A derivative of "baycity": cropped to 1200x630, darkened with a scrim, and set with the wordmark, the section title and this credit. The attribution is burned into the image because a social card carries no caption of ours. | Don Ramey Logan | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
What these licenses allow, and what they ask
Creative Commons Attribution permits commercial use and adaptation, which is why this site can carry advertising on the same page as the photographs. It asks that we credit the photographer, name the license and link to it, and that we not suggest the photographer endorses this site. They do not. Public-domain images ask nothing; the credit is there because it is right, not because it is owed.
Pictures businesses gave us of themselves
These are not licensed. A business or its representative sent us a picture of their own premises and asked that it appear on their listing, and what is recorded below is who asked and on what basis. We cannot verify that a supplier holds the rights to an image they send us — an architectural rendering is usually the visualizer’s copyright, licensed to whoever commissioned it — so what this page can honestly offer is a name to go back to. If one of these is yours and should not be here, tell us and it comes down.
A rendering is not a photograph. Where a picture shows a place as it is intended to look rather than as it stands, it says so here and it says so on the picture itself. A reader should never come away thinking they have seen a room they could walk into today.
| Image | What it is | Supplied by | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Composure Club entrance — the tile for "Composure Club First Look" A rendering, not a photograph: the club had not opened when this was published — the event it illustrates is a hard-hat tour — and the file carries no camera metadata. Center-cropped from 9:5 to 4:3 to fit the tile; nothing else was changed. | Rendering | Composure Club, via Push The Envelope PR | Sent to us by the club’s PR representative, who asked that it be added to their event listing. Received 2026-09-15. |
| An overhead spread of Tiki Coffee & Desserts’ menu — the sponsored guide to Tiki Center-cropped from 5:4 to 3:2 and resized; nothing else was changed. | Photograph | Tiki Coffee & Desserts | From the business’s own product photography, used on its website, supplied for its sponsored guide through BocaRatonFL.org’s publisher, who builds that website. Received 2026-10-03. |
| A frameless enclosure installed by New Shower Doors Unlimited — the sponsored guide to shower doors Where the installation is was not recorded, so nothing here says it is in Boca Raton. Center-cropped from 3:4 to 3:2 and resized; nothing else was changed. | Photograph | New Shower Doors Unlimited | The business’s own installation photograph, supplied by its owner on 2026-09-04 for its website and used for its sponsored guide through BocaRatonFL.org’s publisher, who builds that website. Received 2026-10-03. |
| The Guru Maids logo card — the sponsored guide to house cleaning A logo, not a photograph: the business publishes no photographs of its work. Padded from 1200×630 to 3:2 with the card’s own edge color and resized; nothing else was changed. | Logo | Guru Maids | The business’s own sharing card from gurumaids.com, used for its sponsored guide at the request of BocaRatonFL.org’s publisher, who builds and runs that website, on 2026-10-09. Received 2026-10-09. |
| The PangeaUp logo card — the sponsored guide to getting a Boca Raton business found online A logo, not a photograph. Padded from 1200×630 to 3:2 with the card’s own edge colors and resized; nothing else was changed. | Logo | PangeaUp | PangeaUp’s own sharing card from pangeaup.com. PangeaUp is owned by BocaRatonFL.org’s publisher, who asked for it to be used on 2026-10-09. Received 2026-10-09. |
Data
Where the listings on this site come from, and the terms each source is used under.
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL 1.0
- The backbone of the business and place directory. Attribution and share-alike. The credit in the site footer is a condition of the license, which is why it renders on every page unconditionally rather than only where a map appears.
- City of Boca Raton
- Municipal service listings, and the events calendar feed. Public records of a Florida municipality, published by the city for public use. Reproduced here with the city named as the source; the city’s own website is always the official version.
- Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency
- Downtown events, from the agency’s published calendar. Public records of a Florida public agency, from a calendar the agency publishes for syndication.
- Google Maps
- Photographs of restaurants and event venues, and restaurant opening hours. Used under the Google Maps Platform terms through the Places API. Each photograph is shown with its photographer’s name and “Google Maps”, as those terms require. Photo references and hours are kept for at most 30 days and refreshed; the photographs themselves are never stored by us. No ratings or reviews are taken.
- Local newsrooms
- Headlines in the News section. Headlines and links only. No article text, no photographs and no excerpts are stored or shown, every headline links to the publisher’s own page, and each source’s robots.txt is honored before anything is fetched.
A note on the news section
The News section stores a headline, a link and a publication date. It does not store or display article text, excerpts or photographs, every headline links to the publisher’s own page, and each source’s robots.txt is read and obeyed before anything is fetched. The reporting belongs to the newsrooms that did it and the traffic should go to them.
If a credit here is wrong
If you took one of these photographs and the attribution is wrong, incomplete, or you would rather it were not used here at all, tell us and we will correct or remove it. That is not a formal process — see copyright and DMCA if you would prefer one, but a message is enough and is faster.
Getting in touch about this page
This site does not publish an email address. Every request under these pages — a privacy request, a copyright notice, an accessibility barrier — reaches us through the contact form, filed under Legal or privacy so it is read before the general queue.