Editorial policy

Beach Atlas Global is a data publication. Pages are assembled automatically from open datasets, and people decide which pages are good enough to publish.

What a page may say

• Every sentence on a beach page is generated from that beach’s own data: a measurement, a count, a date, a distance or a comparison with other beaches. If a value is missing, the sentence is left out.
• We do not use generic descriptions, invented atmosphere, “hidden gem” claims, ratings we have not measured, or advice that applies to every beach.
• Text quoted from Wikipedia is marked as a quote and linked to its source and licence.
• We never invent authors, reviewers or reviews. No page on this site is presented as a first-hand visit.

What gets published

Each beach has to clear a data threshold before it is published (see methodology). Pages with too little unique data are not published at all. Near-identical entries are merged and redirected to one page. Page layouts change with the data: a resort area with mapped services gets a different structure from a remote beach with only climate data and photos.

Human review

Every week we read a random sample of published pages from each page type and ask one question: would this page help someone even if search engines did not exist? When a page fails, we fix the template or the data rule that produced it, so the correction applies to every similar page.

Gradual publishing

New pages are released automatically in daily batches, starting with a few hundred and growing gradually, so search engines can crawl them at a steady pace. We monitor how each batch is indexed and pause the schedule if quality signals drop.

Corrections

Use “Report a data error” at the bottom of any beach page, or the contact form. Corrections to the underlying data are applied at the next rebuild and noted in the page’s compile date.

Independence and advertising

Advertising, where shown, is labelled and never influences rankings. Rankings come only from the beach-day index and data scores described in the methodology.