God's Eye View · Open-source edition

Hosted demo · Open-source edition

A live, explorable 3D globe of the world's public signals.

Aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, weather and thousands of public cameras on one photorealistic globe — running in a browser, built entirely from open data and inspectable code.

20
data layers
18
work with no API key
11k+
live aircraft
~4,000
public cameras

The problem

The world's signals are public. Seeing them together isn't.

Flight transponders, ship beacons, orbital elements, seismographs, weather models and city traffic cameras already describe a great deal of what is happening on Earth right now. Each lives behind a different feed, format and website.

Putting them in one place — at the right position, on real terrain, moving smoothly between updates that arrive every 15–30 seconds — is the hard part. That is the gap God's Eye View closes.

The product

One globe. Every layer. Click anything.

The globe renders one interval behind real time and interpolates between known positions, so choppy feeds move smoothly. Click any contact and the camera locks on, draws its trail and surfaces its live metadata.

Click-to-track

Lock onto any aircraft, ship, satellite or fire. A tracked fire or vessel hands you off to the nearest live public camera in one click.

Cockpit view

Ride inside a tracked flight with real terrain under you all the way down, and jump plane-to-plane through a 250 km contact roster.

Sensor looks

Re-render the live planet as CRT, night vision, FLIR thermal, Noir or Snow — keys 1–7.

Cameras in 3D

Public traffic cameras from Austin to Hong Kong are projected into the 3D city, with estimated coverage volumes.

Keyless weather

Forecast wind, rain radar, satellite clouds, lightning and cyclone tracks on one timeline — no account needed.

Voice control

With an OpenAI or Gemini key: “Take me to LAX and select the nearest airborne aircraft.”

Space missions

Replay the last 30 days of launches from countdown to orbit, labeled as reconstructed estimates.

Share links

Camera, style, layers and a tracked target serialize into a URL — a live handoff, not a bookmark.

Architecture

Two surfaces, one honest boundary.

You are reading the static site. The live app runs separately, behind a PIN, with every private key kept on the server.

Browservisitor gev.ed-edu.onlinestatic site · Vercel VPS Reverse proxyTLS · PIN gate GEV server127.0.0.1 · Node Provider keysserver-side only Public dataflights · ships · sats read the story gevapp.ed-edu.online cached, budgeted

Requirements vs. completion

What works today — and what doesn't yet.

What this hosted edition delivers today, measured against what we set out to provide. Upstream features are the open-source project's; hosting rows are ours.

RequirementWhat was builtStatus
Public overview and documentation siteThis site, at gev.ed-edu.onlineBuilt
Keyless live layers: flights, military traffic, satellites, earthquakes, cameras, weather, transit, radioUpstream open-source app, unmodifiedBuilt
Hosted, access-gated live app at gevapp.ed-edu.onlineServer on our VPS behind a TLS reverse proxy with a PIN
Being deployed
Partial
Photorealistic 3D cities and world terrainRequires a Cesium ion or Google Maps key on the host
Esri satellite + keyless terrain until a key is added
Partial
Live ships, active fires, live traffic speedsFree provider keys (AISStream, NASA FIRMS, TomTom)
Enabled per key on the host
Partial
Voice control and AI HUD summaryMetered OpenAI/Gemini key; per-IP throttles exist upstream
Off on the public demo until a spend cap is in place
Roadmap
Industry editions (agriculture, apparel supply chain, airlines)Same app, curated layers and scenes per industryRoadmap

Roadmap

From one globe to industry editions.

Now

  • Overview site live
  • Hosted app behind a PIN
  • Keyless layers on by default

Next

  • Photorealistic 3D via a host-side key
  • Ships, fires and live traffic keys
  • Voice with a hard spend cap

Later

  • Agriculture edition
  • Apparel supply-chain edition
  • Airline operations edition

Deployment notes

How it's hosted.

The site is static, self-contained HTML served by Vercel. The live app is the unmodified open-source Node server running on a VPS, bound to localhost and published only through a TLS reverse proxy that requires a PIN.

Provider keys stay on the server. The upstream server brokers every private key through a hardened proxy; only Google Maps and Cesium ion tokens reach the browser, and both are restricted at the provider.

Want your own copy? The open-source project installs in one click with Pinokio, from a terminal, or with Docker — see the documentation.

Read the story. Then try the real thing.

The demo is gated by a PIN. Ask us for one, then open it in any modern desktop browser.

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