Where the numbers come from

Gods Eyes reads public live feeds on one server and shares the answer with everyone, so the map stays fast and the sources are not hammered. Nothing here comes from an airline, a government agency or an emergency service directly to you, and nothing here is official.

Aircraft

Most aircraft broadcast their position, height and speed by radio (ADS-B). Volunteers run receivers that pick those signals up, and adsb.lol publishes what they hear. A city page reads a shared answer for its area and prints how old it is. Refreshes are limited, so a page can be a few minutes behind. The live map stays closer to real time.

Coverage is strongest near receivers and weak over oceans and remote land, so an aircraft can vanish and reappear. Altitude is the pressure altitude the aircraft reports. Where to look is worked out from your position with a little geometry.

What is estimated

There is no schedule data. Airport boards are estimates from live positions: an aircraft near the field and coming down is counted as arriving. Flight progress comes from height and climb rate. Neither is airline data, and neither knows about gates or delays.

What isn't shown

Military and government aircraft that broadcast public ADS-B are shown live, on public pages and on the map. Private aircraft whose owners asked for their flights to stay off public display through the FAA’s LADD or Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) programmes do not appear anywhere. Flight pages never show owners or registrations.

Person pages (/people) cover public figures only: office holders, billionaires and famous people, with a Wikipedia bio and their headlines. They are not indexed by search engines. A person is linked to an aircraft only after we approve a member’s suggestion that cites a public source, never to one whose owner opted out, and a live position never proves who is on board.

Earthquakes, weather and fires

Earthquakes come from the U.S. Geological Survey, weather alerts from the National Weather Service and wildfire records from the National Interagency Fire Center. Each gets a permanent page that keeps the figures the source reported when Gods Eyes last saw them, with a link back to the source, which stays the authority. For warnings that affect you, use your local weather office and emergency services.

Cameras

Road cameras come from transportation agencies whose terms allow this kind of use. A few camera views a day are free, and unlimited viewing is part of Black Clearance. Live webcams play in YouTube's own player and are free for everyone. Feeds whose licence is unclear stay off.

Satellites

Orbits come from CelesTrak. Pass times are computed with the standard orbit model, and only the brightest satellites are listed.

Using it

Pages like Overhead, Track a flight and Airports need no account. The full live map is free to open, with paid plans for more; see pricing. Never use any of this for navigation or safety decisions.

Flight positions: ADS-B and MLAT from the volunteer receivers of adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0) · Satellite orbits: CelesTrak · Earthquakes: data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey · Weather alerts: NOAA/NWS (U.S. public domain) · Wildfires: National Interagency Fire Center (WFIGS) (U.S. public domain) · Airports and runways: OurAirports (public domain) · METAR and TAF: NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center (U.S. public domain) · Map and place names: Natural Earth (public domain). All data sources.