Data sources
Every data block on the site is labelled with when it was updated and where it comes from. Here is the full list of sources.
News
Publishers' own RSS feeds, with no middlemen like Google News. Refreshed every 30 minutes.
- English: Notes from Poland, Ukrinform English, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, DW.
- Poland: TVN24, Polsat News, Rzeczpospolita, Onet, Interia, RMF24, Gazeta.pl, Money.pl, GeekWeek, RMF24 Nauka, Interia Zdrowie.
- Ukraine: Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrinform, RBC-Ukraine, UNIAN, 24 Kanal, NV, Espreso, ITC.ua, BBC News Ukraine, DW, Radio Svoboda.
Money
- Exchange rates — National Bank of Ukraine; if unavailable — National Bank of Poland. The source of each rate is shown below the table.
- Fuel prices — autocentrum.pl (Poland) and index.minfin.com.ua (Ukraine).
Jobs and housing
- Jobs — OLX, fallback — praca.pl.
- Long-term rentals — OLX, Otodom, in Ukraine — rieltor.ua. Short-term — e-turysta.
- Searches run at the moment you ask, so results are current. The list says which site each listing comes from.
Maps, offices, healthcare
- Addresses of clinics and hospitals (refreshed weekly) and government offices (monthly) — OpenStreetMap, ODbL licence.
- Facilities contracted by the NFZ — open files of the National Health Fund.
- Warsaw transport map — open data from ZTM Warszawa.
Guides and documents
Guides are based on gov.pl, udsc.gov.pl, voivodeship office sites, ZUS and the NFZ. The pages our section guides rely on are checked automatically several times a day.
Weather, holidays, events, TV
- Weather — Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Public holidays in Poland and Ukraine — Nager.Date.
- Events — city portals kulturalna.warszawa.pl, wroclaw.pl, gdansk.pl and concert.ua.
- TV — links to famelack.com: streams open on their site.
- City photos on the home page — Wikimedia Commons; each photo's author and licence are in its tooltip.
When a source doesn't respond
We never pass off old data as fresh. If a source goes quiet, the label under the block turns grey and shows the time of the last successful update; if there's no data at all, it says "Data temporarily unavailable".