Explore the World
Explore the world through maps and globes: open maps, weather visualization, and global radio.
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OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the world built by volunteers, with all data published under the open ODbL license. The official site is a reference map, a search and routing tool, and the gateway to the data.
WindyWindy is an interactive global weather visualization platform from a Czech team, layering wind, radar, satellite and air quality on an animated map, with ECMWF, GFS and ICON model comparison. Core features are free, no account required.
earthAn animated globe by Tokyo engineer Cameron Beccario, online since 2013, that turns NOAA, NASA and Copernicus forecasts into flowing maps of wind, temperature, pressure, currents, waves, aerosols and aurora, zoomable to city level.
Flightradar24A Swedish flight-tracking service that plots live air traffic on a map using a crowdsourced network of 55,000+ ADS-B receivers plus satellite and radar data. Free to use, with paid tiers for longer history and aviation weather layers.
Atlas ObscuraA US travel and exploration platform founded in 2009 that catalogs 30,000+ hidden places and unusual foods through community submissions vetted by editors, plus paid small-group trips, events, and a membership program.
MarineTrafficGlobal real-time vessel tracking platform built on AIS, launched in 2007 as a University of the Aegean project and acquired by Kpler in 2023; live positions and the vessel database are free, satellite AIS and track history are paid.
WikivoyageFree, volunteer-written travel guide hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, covering destinations, itineraries, and phrasebooks anyone can edit. Forked from Wikitravel in 2006, a Wikimedia project since 2013, in 27 language editions.
NumbeoA crowdsourced cost-of-living and quality-of-life database launched in 2009, covering prices, rents and purchasing-power indices for 12,000+ cities. Free to browse with a comparison tool and paid API; data is not official statistics.