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GodEyeView

Data sources, coverage and update times

GodEyeView displays public-source records with their provider, status and timestamp. This guide explains the connected sources and their limits. Availability in the interface depends on the latest request; a provider’s presence in this list does not mean its feed is currently responding.

Aircraft: adsb.lol

Aircraft data is provided by adsb.lol under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). The map makes a documented area request with radius 250 nautical miles, centered on the visible map position rounded to 0.5°. It is requested every 60 seconds while a tool is open; moving to another rounded center starts a new bounded request after a pause. The initial map area is near 49° N, 10° E. The aircraft tool also supports an exact callsign, registration or ICAO-hex query across the provider network. Coverage depends on community receivers, broadcasts and source availability. Position, callsign, registration, type, altitude, ground speed and track appear only when provided. Military filtering uses the provider’s flag and is not a complete military-aircraft census.

Earthquakes: USGS

The map and public tools request the USGS all_day GeoJSON feed, which covers the past day. The Ops workspace requests all_week when its 72-hour or 7-day window is selected; shorter Ops windows use the daily feed. Source status and generated time are shown for the selected window. Event occurrence time remains separate. The Events page filters earthquakes to magnitude 4.5+. Magnitude and depth may be revised by the original source.

Natural events and fires: NASA EONET

The application requests up to 100 open events within the last 30 days. It uses each event’s most recent point geometry. Wildfires are selected by the EONET wildfire category. These markers do not represent complete fire detection coverage, perimeters or official incident severity.

ISS: Where the ISS at?

The satellite layer contains the International Space Station position from the Where the ISS at? API. The source timestamp is retained. It is a position snapshot rather than a visible-pass prediction or a general satellite catalog.

Official US weather alerts: NOAA NWS

The actual-alert endpoint covers the US, territories and NWS marine forecast zones. It is requested only when a weather-alert layer or event workspace needs it, at most once per minute per open workspace. Many alerts have no supplied geometry. Those records remain readable but are not placed at an inferred location. Message expiry and expected event end are different fields. NWS CAP severity is presented as its own official scale.

Space launch schedule: The Space Devs

The launch layer reads a packaged LL2 snapshot. A serialized backend workflow is configured to refresh one page hourly, subject to scheduler availability and provider limits; the displayed fetch time is the freshness evidence. The first page contains at most 20 listings and is not a complete launch archive. Source failure retains the previous records and fetch time. NET, precision and launch-window fields are planned values and can change. Map coordinates locate launch pads. No provider photograph is reused.

Weather radar: RainViewer

The radar layer selects the latest available observed frame from the public RainViewer response and checks for a new frame every 10 minutes while enabled. Radar availability varies by location. Read the observation time shown on the map; it is not a forecast or a weather-alert service.

Dated imagery: NASA GIBS

The imagery controls offer Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color, false-color and nighttime products through NASA GIBS. The selected date controls the tile request. Clouds, product resolution, processing delay and missing tiles affect interpretation. Nighttime imagery is a product view and should not be read as a measured electricity-usage map. Compare two dates opens synchronized views of the same product, with independent requested dates and a draggable divider. Tile loading or failure is shown separately for each side; differences can reflect clouds and coverage as well as the scene itself.

Places, weather and map references

Open-Meteo supplies remote place search and current weather. Weather times include the provider’s timezone. Local city and airport references are static and do not supply schedules, gates or delays. OpenFreeMap/OpenStreetMap, CARTO, Esri and public terrain tiles supply map content depending on the selected view. Their attribution appears with the map.

Live, cached and unavailable

Source times in the feed interface use UTC. The local weather card retains the provider timezone. Unconnected catalog layers remain off, including AIS vessels, road traffic and airport delays. Camera links lead to outside directories; no camera playback is embedded.

  • Live means the latest request returned a valid source response. It may contain no records or no usable positions; it does not mean every object is observed continuously.
  • Cached means a retained or packaged snapshot is displayed, including the shared launch schedule. Its original fetch timestamp remains visible.
  • Unavailable means no usable records are available from that source. It must not be interpreted as zero real-world activity.
  • The main public feeds are requested every 60 seconds while open. Source update frequency and individual observation times can differ.

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