NEB RADAR shows three kinds of pictures, and each one says what it is: openly licensed photos from public sources, photos of spaces that signed-in adults take themselves, and pictures made with AI.
A person checks each of these images before it appears in public or in the open data. Approved images are copied to NEB RADAR's storage on its EU server and shown with the author or credit, a link to the licence and a link back to the source page. During the closed beta, invited testers may also see a preview image taken from a project's own page, marked as a preview and never shown to anyone else; a project team can have it removed at once.
Signed-in adults (Young Citizens 18-30, professionals and mediators, never anyone under 18) can add photos of spaces under a Creative Commons licence they choose, with their name as the photographer credit. NEB RADAR removes the photo's hidden metadata, and a screening step checks that it shows a place and no people or personal details: clear cases are approved, everything doubtful waits for a person. These photos are stored on NEB RADAR's EU server.
Scenes of the Virtual Best Practice Neighbourhoods and Urban Ideation pictures are made with AI (Black Forest Labs, EU endpoint) and are always labelled as AI illustrations. They never stand in for a photo of a real project.
If you are the rights-holder for an image displayed on NEB RADAR and want it taken down, email info@neb-radar.eu with the project URL. We remove images within 48 hours and add the source to a blocklist so our agent does not re-fetch it.
When there is no approved, openly licensed image for a project, the card falls back to a coloured gradient. We never use an AI picture or an unlicensed image in its place.