SonderEye

The planet's live traffic on a 3D globe, on your phone: earthquakes, aircraft, satellites, ships, fires and weather. Native Android, free and open source.

What it shows On the globe

Earthquakes (USGS), sized by magnitude and coloured by depth. Aircraft (adsb.lol), gliding between updates, with 30-minute trails and a follow mode. Satellites (CelesTrak), positions computed on the phone every second, with the orbit of the one you pick and its next passes over you. GPS and geostationary orbits included. Ships (AISStream), fire hotspots (NASA FIRMS) and public webcams (Windy), each with your own free key. Natural events (NASA EONET): wildfires, volcanoes, storms, ice. Conflicts: places the world's news reports fighting in (GDELT), up to a day back, with the stories, and an optional short account of what happened, written by Gemini. Rain radar (RainViewer), optionally looping the past hour. Surveillance cameras and licence-plate readers mapped in OpenStreetMap. Bus lines and stops mapped in OpenStreetMap, each line in its own colour; pick one to see its whole route, or ride it: the map follows you and says the next stop and how many are left. Live buses wherever the operator publishes GTFS Realtime (found through Transitland, with your own free key). Day and night, with city lights on the dark side. Around it

Today: the weather where you are and the day's news from the sources you choose, with an optional summary written by Gemini, made once a day. Sky view: point the phone at the sky to see the satellites, aircraft, Sun and Moon above you, labelled. ISS pass alerts: a notification before each pass you can actually see. Search for places, flights by callsign, and satellites by name. A list of every item in each layer, nearest first, one tap from flying to it; any layer can be hidden from the map from its list. The globe Native OpenGL ES 3.0, camera-relative rendering: no float jitter from 40,000 km down to 120 m. Esri satellite imagery, streets, or yesterday's whole Earth from NASA, with roads and place names on top; close in, the roads are drawn by the app from OpenStreetMap data, sharp at any zoom. The whole Earth at country scale ships inside the app (NASA Blue Marble), so the globe appears at once, even offline. Tiles load centre first, parents before children, and are kept on the phone (up to 500 MB). Markers lie on the curved surface; satellites face you from orbit. A radar scope over the screen centre: bearings, range rings at real ground distances, and a sweep.

Licence GPL-3.0-only.