Where the data comes from

Gods Eyes only runs sources whose terms allow a commercial service. Each one is credited here exactly as it is credited on the globe (the “Data attribution” button on the credit line).

Base maps and 3D cities carry their own attributions on screen (Google, Esri, OpenStreetMap). Sources that are free for personal use only, such as the OpenSky Network, are switched off.

Flights and aviation Ships and ports Space Weather Earthquakes, fires and hazards Traffic cameras and webcams Street-level imagery Transit, bikes and traffic Maps, places and terrain News and radio Energy and internet infrastructure AI analyst

Flights and aviation

Live flights, flight pages, military flights, aircraft traces & GNSS navigation integrity: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0)
Worldwide flights, when the stream is on: ADSBHub and the receivers that share data with it
Airport weather (METAR) and station names: NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center (U.S. government, public domain)
Flight routes: Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0 1.0), sent in by its users
Aircraft type photos: Wikimedia Commons contributors; each photo shows its author and licence (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA)
Airport delays: FAA National Airspace System Status (U.S. government, public domain)
Gliders: Open Glider Network (ODbL 1.0), following each owner's privacy choices in its Devices Database
Navaids: OurAirports (public domain)
Airports, runways and frequencies, and the runway lines behind landing estimates and the 3D landing views: OurAirports (public domain)
Aviation weather (METAR, TAF, SIGMET, AIRMET, pilot reports): NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center (U.S. public domain). Not for navigation.
Aeronautical charts, airspace (ADDS) and TFRs: FAA Aeronautical Information Services · ADDS · tfr.faa.gov (U.S. Government works, public use). Not for navigation.

Ships and ports

Live vessels (AIS): AISStream.io
World ports: World Port Index (Pub 150), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (US Government work, public domain). Live vessels in port, fishing vessels and their activity estimate are derived from the AISStream.io feed. Ship destinations are matched against this index; estimated routes to port run on our own water graph, built from Natural Earth (public domain).

Space

Satellites (TLEs): CelesTrak (celestrak.org), Dr. T.S. Kelso
Space mission launch, payload & recovery metadata: Launch Library 2 — The Space Devs (API documentation and rate limits)
Aurora forecast, Kp index and space weather scales: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (OVATION model). U.S. public domain.
Satellite ground stations: SatNOGS Network, Libre Space Foundation (CC BY-SA 4.0); positions rounded
Stars: Yale Bright Star Catalogue (Hoffleit & Warren, via CDS). Milky Way: ESO/S. Brunier (CC BY 4.0; stars removed, blurred and reprojected)

Weather

Observed weather: NOAA nowCOAST · NWS/OAR MRMS radar; NESDIS GOES and global satellite partners. Source disclaimer.
Cyclone advisories, seven-day tropical weather outlook areas and coastal watches/warnings: NOAA/NWS NHC / CPHC · Atlantic and eastern/central North Pacific. Forecast center uncertainty, not storm size.
Weather alerts: NOAA/NWS active watches, warnings and advisories (api.weather.gov; zone shapes from the NOAA watch/warning/advisory map service). U.S. public domain. Official text on weather.gov is authoritative.
Severe storm outlook: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center. Storm reports: NWS local storm reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University). Reports are preliminary. U.S. public domain.
Lightning density: NOAA/NWS nowCOAST · derived from Vaisala NLDN/GLD360. Public derived density product, not raw detections.
Wind: resampled NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS) 10 m wind via NOAA Open Data on AWS (U.S. public domain; forecast, not observations)
This service is based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ECMWF Open Data · CC BY 4.0. Modified: resampled 10 m IFS forecast vectors and animated display. ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
German weather warnings: Source Deutscher Wetterdienst (CC BY 4.0)
Weather balloons: SondeHub (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Cockpit current conditions: Weather data from MET Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, CC BY 4.0)

Earthquakes, fires and hazards

Earthquakes: Data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Critical incidents: USGS, NOAA/NWS, GDACS, NASA EONET, Copernicus EMS, GDELT and U.S. State Department travel advisories. Circle sizes are approximate.
Wildfire perimeters: National Interagency Fire Center (WFIGS) · Incident information: InciWeb
Air quality (AQHI): Environment and Climate Change Canada — MSC GeoMet (eccc-msc.github.io/open-data) · ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence
Volcano alert levels: USGS Volcano Hazards Program (US volcanoes). U.S. public domain.
Tsunami messages: NOAA/NWS National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers. U.S. public domain.
Ocean buoys: NOAA National Data Buoy Center and the partner networks it redistributes. U.S. public domain.
River gauges: NOAA/NWS National Water Prediction Service observed stages and flood categories (many gauges operated by the USGS). U.S. public domain.
Community air quality: Sensor.Community contributors (DbCL 1.0)
Humanitarian: This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA
Active fires: NASA FIRMS — we acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (earthdata.nasa.gov/firms), part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

Traffic cameras and webcams

CCTV cameras & frames: City of Austin, TX — data.austintexas.gov
CCTV cameras & frames (Texas): Texas Department of Transportation (courtesy)
CCTV live video (Delaware): DelDOT — Delaware Department of Transportation
CCTV cameras, frames & live video (California): Caltrans — cwwp2.dot.ca.gov
CCTV cameras & frames (London): Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights.
CCTV cameras & frames (Ontario): Ontario 511 (Open Government Licence - Ontario) · provided as is, without warranty; actual road conditions may differ
CCTV cameras & frames (Finland): Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi, license CC BY 4.0
Road-camera stills (Lithuania, when enabled): Via Lietuva / Eismoinfo; periodically updated images
Freeway camera stills (Taiwan): Freeway Bureau, MOTC, CCTV static data (MOTC 2.0), released under the Open Government Data License, Taiwan (Version 1.0)
Traffic camera stills (Singapore): Land Transport Authority via data.gov.sg, released under the Singapore Open Data Licence
Traffic camera stills (York Region, Ontario): Contains public sector information made available under The Regional Municipality of York's Open Data Licence
Traffic camera stills (Surrey, BC): City of Surrey. Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – City of Surrey.
Highway camera stills (Manitoba, when a key is set): Manitoba 511. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
Traffic camera stills (Ottawa, when a certificate is set): City of Ottawa. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa.
Traffic camera stills (Nottingham): Nottingham City Council Traffic Control Centre. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
Traffic and flood camera stills (Queensland): © State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads), via the QLDTraffic API, licensed CC BY 4.0 AU
Traffic camera stills (Madrid): Origen de los datos: Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30, licensed CC BY 4.0
Traffic camera stills (Málaga): Ayuntamiento de Málaga, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Traffic camera stills (Basque Country, when enabled): Diputación Foral de Bizkaia via Open Data Euskadi, licensed CC BY 4.0
Traffic camera stills (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont): data provided by Tri-State via the New England Compass Developer Portal
Highway camera stills (Oregon, when a key is set): Oregon Department of Transportation (TripCheck) and partner agencies; images are mirrored on this server per the ODOT Developer Portal terms. All information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind; ODOT and the providing agencies are not liable for its accuracy, completeness or availability.
Road camera stills (Sweden, when a key is set): Trafikverket open API, CC0 1.0
Road camera stills (Iceland): Vegagerðin (IRCA), road cameras dataset (vefmyndavelar2014_1), obtained live, licensed CC BY 4.0
Traffic camera stills (Geneva): Données SITG, INFOMOB_CAMERA, Office cantonal des transports, État de Genève; extracted live, open data (A – Accès libre)
Traffic camera stills (Lyon): Métropole de Lyon, Caméras Web Criter, Licence Ouverte 2.0
Traffic cameras (Calgary): contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary
Traffic cameras (Florida): FL511, Florida Department of Transportation. Individual, personal use only under the FL511 terms; any other use needs FDOT's express written consent
CCTV cameras & frames (Catalonia): Servei Català de Trànsit (Llicència oberta d’ús d’informació - Catalunya); some cameras are supplied by partners (Ajuntament de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Terrassa), each named in the CCTV panel
CCTV cameras & frames (King County, WA): King County Road Services — kingcounty.gov, per the KCGIS Center terms. Partner-city cameras hosted on the county image handler (e.g. Newcastle) name their owner in the CCTV panel.
Traffic snapshot cameras (Hong Kong): Transport Department / DATA.GOV.HK (Terms of Use — attribution required)
Road cameras (Norway): contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by Statens vegvesen · camera ground heights © Kartverket (CC BY 4.0); modified: heights over water set to 0 m and rounded to 0.1 m
Live webcams: official, space and community live cameras played in the YouTube embedded player, each credited to its channel on its card · YouTube Terms of Service · Google Privacy Policy
Road cameras & live video (Iowa, when enabled): Iowa Department of Transportation (CC BY 4.0)
CCTV cameras & frames (New York City, when enabled): NYC DOT Traffic Management Center. This application may contain and/or utilize information which was originally compiled by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) for governmental purposes; the information may subsequently been modified by entity/entities other than NYC DOT. NYC DOT and the City of New York make no representation as to the accuracy or usefulness of the information provided by this application or the information's suitability for any purpose and disclaim any liability for omissions or errors that may be contained therein. The public is advised to observe posted signage for compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Traffic cameras (Toronto): contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto
CCTV cameras & frames (British Columbia): DriveBC. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Some cameras are supplied by partners (TransLink, the City of Vancouver, the City of Surrey, Parks Canada and others); each names its provider in the CCTV panel.
CCTV cameras & frames (Washington State): Washington State Department of Transportation (Travel Center), used per the WSDOT travel information disclaimer (low-volume public feed; catalog cached, frames proxied on demand)
CCTV cameras & frames (Tallinn): City of Tallinn — ristmikud.tallinn.ee (courtesy)
CCTV cameras & frames (Estonia road weather): Transpordiamet / Tarktee — tarktee.transpordiamet.ee (courtesy)
Webcam (Warendorf): Stadt Warendorf (courtesy)
CCTV cameras & frames (New South Wales): Live Traffic NSW — Transport for NSW (CC BY 4.0)

Street-level imagery

Street Level: imagery © Mapillary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
Street Level: Street View imagery © Google
Street Level: imagery © KartaView contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
Street Level: imagery © Panoramax contributors, licence per picture

Transit, bikes and traffic

Bikeshare availability: GBFS operator feeds (e.g. Austin BCycle; Bike Share Toronto, operated by the Toronto Parking Authority; Bike Itaú and Tembici Bogotá, operated by Tembici; Bicing, Barcelona City Council (B:SM); AMBici, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, operated by nextbike; BiciMAD, Powered by EMT de Madrid; Bizi Zaragoza; BIKI, AUVASA (Valladolid); BiciCoruña; Dbizi (Donostia-San Sebastián); Bilbao Bizi, Bilbao City Council; BicinRivas, Rivas-Vaciamadrid City Council)
City bikes (Norway): contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) made available by Oslo Bysykkel, Bergen Bysykkel and Trondheim Bysykkel
City bikes (Stavanger, Skien/Porsgrunn): contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) made available by Entur (Kolumbus Bysykkel, Farte Bysykkel)
City bikes (Lillestrøm, Valencia, Seville): Bysykkel Lillestrøm, Valenbisi, Sevici, JCDecaux — Licence Ouverte
Routing (voice routes and Directions): OSRM on the FOSSGIS servers — routing.openstreetmap.de · fix the map
Transit vehicles: operator GTFS-Realtime feeds (each operator is credited below when its vehicles are shown)
Transit (MBTA / MassDOT): MassDOT Developers License Agreement
Transit (Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority — data.texas.gov): CapMetro Developer Tools license
Transit (Metro Transit — Metropolitan Council): Public Metro Transit vehicle position data
Transit (HSL (Helsinki Region Transport)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (OVapi / Stichting OpenGeo — Dutch integrated real-time transit data): Free to use per the OVapi README (best effort, no SLA)
Transit (Entur — data under NLOD): Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD)
Transit (TransLink — Queensland Government (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Toronto Transit Commission — City of Toronto Open Data (Open Government Licence – Toronto)): Open Government Licence – Toronto
Transit (MiWay — City of Mississauga Open Data): City of Mississauga Open Data Terms of Use
Transit (Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton’s Open Data Licence): City of Hamilton Open Data Licence
Transit (Contains public sector information made available under The Regional Municipality of Durham's Open Data Licence): Region of Durham Open Data Licence v.1.0
Transit (Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Guelph): Open Government Licence – City of Guelph (v2.0)
Transit (Contains information licensed under the Open Data Licence – City of Kingston): City of Kingston Open Data Licence 1.0
Transit (Realtime vehicle data © City of Barrie, used under the Barrie Transit Data licence): Barrie Transit Data licence
Transit (Contains public transit Information made available under YRT's Open Data Licence): YRT Open Data Licence v2.0 (UK OGL-derived)
Transit (Transit data © City of Burlington (Burlington Transit), used under the City of Burlington Open Data Terms of Use): City of Burlington Open Data Terms of Use
Transit (Data obtained from the MTA and redistributed from Gods Eyes servers): MTA Data Feed Terms and Conditions
Transit (Regional Transportation District (RTD)): RTD GTFS Realtime License Agreement
Transit (Transit scheduling, geographic, and real-time data provided by permission of King County): King County Transit Data Terms of Use
Transit (Edmonton Transit Service data, publicly available from the City of Edmonton under its Open Data Terms of Use): City of Edmonton Open Data Terms of Use v2.1
Transit (Adelaide Metro - Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure, South Australia): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Data source: BC Transit): BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use
Transit (Data provided by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA)): GCRTA Developer License Agreement
Transit (Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax.): Open Government Licence – Halifax
Transit (Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA/Metro)): SORTA/Metro Developer Data terms
Transit (ZDiTM Szczecin (CC0 1.0)): CC0 1.0
Transit (Źródło: ZTM Poznań — data processed by Gods Eyes; last update shown per feed): ZTM Poznań developer portal rules (re-use of public information)
Transit (Bordeaux Métropole / TBM — Licence Ouverte (source and last-update date shown)): Licence Ouverte / Etalab
Transit (Lignes d'Azur — Licence Ouverte v2.0 (source and last-update date shown)): Licence Ouverte v2.0
Transit (Renfe — data.renfe.com (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Source: Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi, license CC 4.0 BY): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia — data.ctb.eus (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (KTMB — data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Data obtained from MTA): MTA data feed terms and conditions
Transit (Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.): Open Government Licence v3.0
Transit (National Transport Authority (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Trafiklab / Samtrafiken — GTFS Regional (CC0 1.0)): CC0 1.0
Transit (Transport for NSW (CC BY)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Société de transport de Montréal (CC BY 4.0)): CC BY 4.0
Transit (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority): WMATA Transit Data Terms of Use
Transit (TriMet): TriMet Developer Terms of Use
Transit (Data provided by 511.org): 511 Data Disseminator Agreement

Maps, places and terrain

Map labels: Powered by Esri — Esri, TomTom, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community
Recent imagery and NASA Earth imagery: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov · HLS product page
Military area names: Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Keyless place search: Photon (komoot)
Terrain (keyless globe stacks): Re:Earth Terrain / Mapterhorn (CC BY 4.0) / EGM2008 (NGA)
Dams: Open Infrastructure Map
Country, state/province and physical region boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain)
US county boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau (public domain)

News and radio

Feed, Discover, People desk and cockpit regional headlines: GDELT Project (article links; publisher terms apply)
Discover, Trending: Wikimedia pageviews (CC0) and Wikipedia page places and short descriptions (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Discover, Trending: Hacker News (official API; titles belong to their posters, rows link to the story)
Feed headlines when a topic runs short, from official feeds: NASA, National Hurricane Center, NWS Storm Prediction Center, U.S. State Dept, White House, Federal Reserve, U.S. SEC, NIST (no agency endorses this service)
TV news: official live streams in the YouTube player; each channel owns its stream
Internet-radio station directory: Radio Browser (public domain; audio delivered directly by each broadcaster)
Wikipedia nearby: text from Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0), shortened
Cyber threats: abuse.ch Feodo Tracker (CC0)

Energy and internet infrastructure

Oil and gas, power lines, substations, mines, solar and wind farms, cables and exchanges: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), some via Overture Maps Foundation
U.S. refineries, LNG, pipelines, terminals, gas plants and power plants: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (maps dated 2017 to January 2021; U.S. liquefaction capacity, June 2025; Form EIA-860M, September 2026). Public domain.
Power plants outside the U.S.: Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute. Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Mines and mineral sites: USGS Mineral Resources Data System and Mineral operations outside the United States (U.S. Geological Survey, public domain).
Internet exchanges and LNG terminals: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap.

AI analyst

Analyst desk: AI answers via OpenRouter from the feeds credited here. AI answers may be wrong.