stars.chromeexperiments.com
Fly through a 3D map of our stellar neighbourhood, zooming from the Sun out to the shape of the Milky Way.
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Maps & Exploration
The world, mapped in ways Google never showed you.
atlasobscura.com
A crowd-built guide to the world's strangest places, foods and hidden wonders, mapped and searchable.
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map.blitzortung.org
A volunteer-run network showing lightning strikes worldwide within seconds of them happening.
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darksitefinder.com
Light-pollution map for finding somewhere you can actually see the Milky Way.
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driveandlisten.app
Drive through dozens of cities in dashcam footage while listening to that city's local radio.
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earth.nullschool.net
Hypnotic animated globe of live wind, weather, ocean currents and particulate data.
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fallingfruit.org
A crowdsourced world map of edible fruit trees and forageable plants growing on public land.
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flightradar24.com
Live map of nearly every aircraft in the sky, with routes, aircraft type and altitude.
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geotastic.net
Free crowdfunded multiplayer geography guessing game in the GeoGuessr mold.
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hoodmaps.com
Crowdsourced, brutally honest maps of what locals actually call each part of a city.
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joshworth.com
A scrolling, true-to-scale map of the solar system that makes the sheer emptiness of space viscerally obvious.
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komoot.com
Route planner for hiking and cycling built on community-verified trail data.
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liveuamap.com
Live conflict and breaking-events map built from geolocated open-source reports.
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mapchart.net
Colour in your own custom world, country and historical maps and export them.
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marinetraffic.com
Live tracking of cargo ships and vessels worldwide with routes and arrival estimates.
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native-land.ca
Type any address and see which Indigenous nations' territories, languages and treaties cover that land.
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ocearch.org
Follow individually tagged great white sharks as they ping their locations.
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oldmapsonline.org
Search a century-spanning archive of historical maps by location and year, from library collections worldwide.
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oyster.com
Hotel review site built on unedited photos and in-person expert inspections rather than user submissions.
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randomstreetview.com
Teleports you to a genuinely random Google Street View location anywhere on Earth.
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river-runner-global.samlearner.com
Drop a raindrop anywhere on Earth and follow its exact path downstream all the way to the ocean.
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apps.sentinel-hub.com
Browse free Sentinel satellite imagery of anywhere on Earth in multiple spectral bands.
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shademap.app
Overlays accurate sun and shadow simulation on a world map for any date and time of day.
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thetruesize.com
Drag countries around the Mercator projection to see how badly the map lies about size.
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ventusky.com
Beautifully rendered global weather animation showing wind, gusts, precipitation and pressure over time.
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wikimapia.org
Crowd-annotated world map where anyone can label and describe any place.
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window-swap.com
Look out of a stranger's window, somewhere else in the world, in real time footage they submitted.
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windy.com
Animated, layerable weather maps covering wind, rain, temperature, waves, air quality and hurricane tracks.
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