Live Geospatial Data Maps

Every earthquake reported by the USGS in the past 24 hours, plotted on an interactive map that refreshes automatically every minute.

Satellite-detected wildfire hotspots across the globe, refreshed every few minutes and plotted on an interactive map.

Active severe weather warnings issued by the US National Weather Service, drawn as alert polygons that refresh every two minutes.

Every Holocene-active volcano in the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program database, plotted on an interactive map that refreshes hourly.

Open natural events from NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker — wildfires, storms, volcanoes, floods — on a map that refreshes every 15 minutes.

Real-time lightning strikes detected by the community-run Blitzortung network, refreshed every minute as storms move.

Military aircraft broadcasting over ADS-B right now — tankers, transports, fighters — from the open adsb.lol receiver network, refreshed every 30 seconds.

The ISS and other notable satellites propagated from CelesTrak orbital elements, showing their current ground positions on an interactive map.

Thousands of Starlink satellites propagated from CelesTrak orbital elements, showing their current ground positions on an interactive map.

Every scheduled rocket launch worldwide, mapped at its launch pad with mission, provider, and liftoff time — refreshed hourly from Launch Library 2.

NASA's three Deep Space Network complexes — Goldstone, Madrid, and Canberra — live-updating with the spacecraft each dish is talking to right now.

Recently reported bright meteors — fireballs and bolides — from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, plotted at their atmospheric entry locations.

Vessels broadcasting AIS positions right now — cargo ships, tankers, and passenger vessels — from the open AIS aggregation, refreshed every few minutes.

Ocean data buoys reporting wave height, swell, and wind in real time from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center network and partners.

The world's undersea fiber-optic cables — the physical backbone of the internet — drawn as interactive linework with per-cable details.

Global submarine cable landing points and coastal stations — the physical terrestrial connection nodes for transoceanic fiber-optic networks.

NOAA's OVATION aurora forecast rendered as a probability layer on an interactive globe — find where the northern and southern lights are visible right now.

Ground air-quality monitoring stations worldwide with their latest readings, refreshed every 15 minutes from the OpenAQ aggregation.

Near-realtime cloud cover for the entire globe, composited from EUMETSAT and NASA satellite imagery and refreshed every 10 minutes.

Today's true-color imagery from NASA's MODIS Terra sensor — the whole planet at ~250 m resolution, zoomable in your browser, refreshed every day.

Live network events — route changes, withdrawals, and anomalies — plotted at their geographic origin, a heartbeat monitor for the global internet.

The world's colocation data centers and carrier hotels from PeeringDB — the physical buildings where internet networks interconnect.

Every airport in the open OurAirports database — from international hubs to small strips — plotted with names and identifiers.

Buses and trains reporting real-time positions from open transit feeds, aggregated via Transitland and refreshed every few minutes.

Thousands of public webcams worldwide — city views, mountain passes, beaches, and landmarks — plotted on an interactive map.

News headlines from thousands of global outlets, geolocated by the GDELT Project and plotted where the events are happening.

Wikipedia edits streaming in near real time, plotted at the geolocated origin of each change to the world's encyclopedia.

Recent citizen-science species observations from iNaturalist, plotted where they were recorded and refreshed every ten minutes.

Recent bird sightings reported by the eBird community worldwide, plotted at their observation points and refreshed every ten minutes.