overwatch.earth now opens on a website. Earlier versions loaded straight into the 3D globe. The front page lists all 34 live feeds grouped by theme, and every feed has its own page covering the data behind it, where it comes from, and a globe focused on that feed alone.
The globe is one click away and still needs no account.
Every feed has its own page
The 34 feeds are grouped into four themes:
- Transit (6): aircraft, ships, Amtrak trains, military aircraft, public transit, airports.
- Environmental (14): earthquakes, wildfires, live clouds, satellite imagery, lightning, disaster alerts, natural events, aurora, ocean buoys, air quality, weather alerts, EMSC seismic, fireballs, volcanoes.
- Digital (5): submarine cables, internet outages, data centers, IODA outages, internet events.
- Curiosity (9): Wikipedia pulse, global news, satellites and the ISS, rocket launches, biodiversity, webcams, Starlink, the Deep Space Network, rare birds.
Each feed page names its upstream provider, and every layer is attributed on the data sources page.
Discussions on every feed
Each map carries a comments drawer, so a conversation attaches to the feed it belongs to. The discussion page collects what people post across all 34 feeds and ranks it by recent activity.
Commenting takes an email and a username
Enter an email address and pick a username. overwatch.earth emails a pin code from noreply@tuxxin.com, and entering that code signs you in. You choose whether to stay signed in for 30 days or keep the session temporary.
Every sign-in works this way, so the site stores no passwords. There is nothing to reuse across sites, nothing to leak in a dump, and no reset flow to phish.
Suggest a feed
The contact form accepts data source submissions. It asks for the source name, a URL or link to its API docs, and a note about what it covers. Send one through Suggest a data source.
What comes next
More feeds are queued for release. Work has also started on a multi-tenant system that will let people build their own globes from their own data.
overwatch.earth is free to read, runs on open public data sources, and requires no login.
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