Mapping

Sites offering map browsing, geographic data, and spatial analysis.

277 curated websites

Practical Tools

1 websites

FeltFelt is a cloud-native GIS — drop any spatial file into the browser to get a shareable map, edit together in real time, and connect live warehouse data. Free for personal use.

Explore the World

3 websites

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.

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.

Fun & Games

1 websites

WplaceA collaborative pixel-art site stretched over the world map: a shared 4-trillion-pixel canvas with a slowly regenerating pixel budget, spawning fan murals, flags and pixel wars. Launched July 2025; a million users in four days.

Maps & world

1 websites

Zoom EarthAn interactive weather map layering near-real-time satellite imagery, radar, forecasts, hurricane tracks and wildfire hotspots on one map — no account needed. Built by Neave Interactive on NOAA, NASA and EUMETSAT data.