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Twenty layers now (weather, wind, cyclones and recent imagery landed
upstream); Street Level sits after Recent Imagery in the right rail and the
Cameras group, and the rail CSS names it beside the other panels.

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# 🌐 God's Eye View
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### A spy-satellite simulator in your browser — then you realize the sources are public and the data is real.
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▶️ **From the project behind the viral God's Eye View series** _(formerly WorldView)_ — [5M+ on YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6qSg2I-7_koPbDnSMo0QeeHX_RknA2uv&si=nBGYMoHWQw41v93Q) · [25M+ across socials](https://www.google.com/search?q=god%27s+eye+view)
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🏆 **Reached #1 on GitHub Trending, daily and weekly · August 2026**
**[#8 Product of the Day](https://www.producthunt.com/products/god-s-eye-view?launch=god-s-eye-view)** · Hunted by Chris Messina, creator of the hashtag
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<div align="center">
**[Quick Start](#-quick-start) · [First Five Minutes](#-the-first-five-minutes) · [Talk to It](#-talk-to-it) · [What's Live](#-whats-on-the-globe) · [Under the Hood](#-under-the-hood) · [Keys & Costs](#-api-keys)**
**[Quick Start](#-quick-start) · [First Five Minutes](#-the-first-five-minutes) · [Talk to It](#-talk-to-it) · [What's Live](#-whats-on-the-globe) · [Under the Hood](#-under-the-hood) · [Keys & Costs](#-api-keys) · [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)**
</div>
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- **🎥 Scene director:** Capture cinematic camera tours for clips and demos.
- **🔗 Share Links:** Camera, style, layers, and even one tracked target serialize into a URL — a live target is a handoff, not a bookmark.
- **🏠 Reset Globe:** One control — or one sentence — back to the full Earth.
- **🌦️ Weather:** Animate GFS or ECMWF forecast wind, replay observed radar, satellite clouds and lightning on one timeline, and follow NHC/CPHC cyclone tracks. No key needed.
- **📷 Mapped ALPR cameras:** License-plate-reader camera locations tagged in OpenStreetMap, one city at a time. Locations and tags only; no key needed.
- **🔭 Satellite passes:** Ask by voice when any loaded satellite next rises over you: rise, peak and set times, and whether you can see it.
- **🔎 Analyst answers:** Count, filter and rank satellites, datacenters and dams by voice, alongside flights, ships, fires and quakes; answers say when a feed is stale or on a fallback.
- **🧭 Tilt and North Up:** Switch between straight-down and a 35° oblique, or put north at the top, while a tracked target stays centered.
- **🔍 Keyless search:** Type coordinates or a bundled city or landmark to fly there with no network request; other names use Google when configured, then Photon and Nominatim.
- **📦 Shareable scenes:** Import, preview and share Director scenes as files or bundles, with camera anchors, authored moves and data packs.
- **🌊 Nepal flood scene:** Replay the Bhote Koshi flood: flood path, witness sources and before-and-after imagery (bundled data is non-commercial; see [DATA_SOURCES.md](DATA_SOURCES.md)).
---
@@ -90,7 +96,7 @@ cameras, radio, and launches are available without keys.
For photorealistic 3D, add a **Cesium ion token** for eligible personal,
non-commercial use, or a **Google Maps key** for the direct, metered route and
in-app place search. Provider terms and quotas apply. Add keys through the
Google place search. Provider terms and quotas apply. Add keys through the
app's **POWER UP** panel; [Keys & Costs](#-api-keys) explains the options.
### Path 1 — One click, no terminal
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- **What to get first:** the free [Cesium ion](https://cesium.com/ion) token
(eligible personal, non-commercial use; current terms and quotas apply) for
photorealistic 3D and world terrain; a Google Maps key only for the
billing-enabled, metered route + place search; OpenAI when you want to talk
to the world. Full map, costs included, in [Keys & Costs](#-api-keys).
billing-enabled, metered route + Google place search; OpenAI when you want to
talk to the world. Full map, costs included, in [Keys & Costs](#-api-keys).
<details>
<summary>Older Pinokio versions and credential storage</summary>
@@ -188,7 +194,7 @@ Choose a first-run mission, or try these in order. The GIFs show Google Photorea
![Moving from a full airport overhead down to close taxiway inspection with 3D flight models](docs/media/start-here/airport-ground-traffic-google-3d.gif)
4. **Look through a public camera.** Turn on **CCTV** over Austin, London, California, or Finland. The feeds aren't webcam embeds — they project _into_ the 3D city. Cycle coverage to **VIEWSHED** and every camera draws its estimated coverage volume — where it reaches, and where it goes blind.
4. **Look through a public camera.** Turn on **Cameras** over Austin, London, California, Finland, or Delaware (live video). The feeds aren't webcam embeds — they project _into_ the 3D city. Cycle coverage to **VIEWSHED** and every camera draws its estimated coverage volume — where it reaches, and where it goes blind.
![Diving into an Austin intersection with a live public camera projected into the 3D scene](docs/media/03-austin-cctv.gif)
@@ -203,7 +209,7 @@ Choose a first-run mission, or try these in order. The GIFs show Google Photorea
7. **Talk to it** _(needs an OpenAI key)_: _"Take me to LAX and select the nearest airborne aircraft."_
8. **Come home.** Hit **Reset Globe** — or just say _"zoom out to a globe view."_
**Keyboard:** `1`–`7` visual styles · `H` HUD · `D` detection · `C` cockpit · `Esc` out.
**Keyboard:** `1`–`7` visual styles · `H` HUD · `D` detection · `C` cockpit · `` ` `` frame rate · `Esc` out. Trackpad pinch zooms the globe.
---
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## 🎙️ Talk to It
> Voice needs an **OpenAI key**. Without one the entire app still runs — the mic button just reports voice is unavailable. The same key drives the **AI HUD summary**: a terse, five-word intelligence-style readout of the current view that regenerates as you move.
Click **GEV MIC**, grant the microphone, and just talk. This is more than a voice-controlled remote:
@@ -234,7 +241,7 @@ Click **GEV MIC**, grant the microphone, and just talk. This is more than a voic
- **🎬 Cinematic framing.** _"Show me the planes overhead"_ pulls the camera back, angles it, and frames the live traffic like a director.
- **🔒 Honest and secure.** The agent only confirms actions that succeeded. Your `OPENAI_API_KEY` never touches the browser; the client only gets a short-lived session token.
Twenty-eight tools, four jobs — the commands below come straight from the product's voice test suite and tool playbook:
Twenty-nine tools, four jobs — the commands below come straight from the product's voice test suite and tool playbook:
**🎥 Direct it** — drone-operator camera verbs:
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**🔎 Interrogate it** — analyst queries against the live layers:
> 🗣️ _"How many flights are over Texas right now?"_ · _"Which ships are headed to Oakland?"_ · _"What is the biggest fire near Los Angeles?"_ · _"Is anything flying above forty thousand feet?"_ · _"When does the ISS pass over next?"_
> 🗣️ _"How many flights are over Texas right now?"_ · _"Which ships are headed to Oakland?"_ · _"What is the biggest fire near Los Angeles?"_ · _"Is anything flying above forty thousand feet?"_ · _"When does the ISS pass over next?"_ · _"How many datacenters are in view?"_
**🎛️ Operate it** — the whole console, hands-free:
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_Ask for radio near anywhere and the globe starts broadcasting — every station is a real place you can fly to._
---
## 📷 Street Level (Mapillary)
> Needs a free **Mapillary client token**; the AI query additionally needs an **Anthropic key**. Both go in POWER UP.
---
## 🛰️ What's on the Globe
Sixteen layers and map sources. **Thirteen have a keyless path.** Some offer additional capabilities with a provider key. (🟢 no key · 🟡 free key · 🔴 metered.)
Twenty layers and map sources. **Seventeen have a keyless path.** Some offer additional capabilities with a provider key. (🟢 no key · 🟡 free key · 🔴 metered.)
| Layer | What you get | Source | Auth |
| --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🗺️ **Map Stack** | Esri satellite imagery, Google Photorealistic 3D, OSM, plus additional ion-hosted stacks | Esri / Google / Ion / OSM | 🟢 Esri satellite + OSM · 🟡 ion-hosted Google 3D + world terrain · 🔴 direct Google + place search |
| ✈️ **Live Flights** | 11,000+ live aircraft + route history | OpenSky + adsb.lol | 🟢 (🟡 optional for more polling credits) |
| 🎖️ **Military Flights** | ADS-B military traffic in amber | adsb.lol | 🟢 |
| 🚢 **Live Vessels** | Thousands of ships worldwide | AISStream | 🟡 |
| 🛰️ **Satellites** | 838-object catalog, color-coded by class with a live legend — the **DENSE** chip drops in the whole Starlink shell | CelesTrak | 🟢 |
| 🌍 **Earthquakes** | Global seismic activity, last 24h | USGS | 🟢 |
| 🚗 **Traffic** | Simulated vehicles on OSM roads. With TomTom, live flow speeds drive the simulation and congestion colors below ~8 km; individual vehicle positions are not live observations | TomTom + OSM | 🟢 simulation · 🟡 live flow speeds |
| 📹 **CCTV Mesh** | ~3,600 public cameras projected _into_ the 3D space — Austin · Texas (TxDOT) · California (Caltrans) · London (TfL) · Ontario (511) · Finland (Fintraffic) · British Columbia (DriveBC) · Estonia (Tallinn, Tarktee) · New South Wales (Live Traffic NSW) · Calgary. Positions are published; poses are estimated priors **you calibrate by dragging a gizmo on the camera itself** | City APIs | 🟢 |
| 📷 **Street Level** | Mapillary coverage drawn onto the streets, click a sequence for its image cones, open any image in the embedded MapillaryJS viewer, and **Street Cockpit** — the globe camera follows the street-level view. Ask **the plain-English query box** in plain English (_"show me all fire hydrants in Sacramento"_) and the detected objects and traffic signs stream onto the globe tile by tile with Mapillary's own icons | Mapillary + Anthropic | 🟡 Mapillary client token · 🔴 Anthropic key for the AI query |
| 📻 **Radio** | Geolocated world radio with an **analog tuner** — drag the needle across up to 750 stations and the globe flies to each broadcaster | Radio Browser / broadcasters | 🟢 |
| 🚌 **Transit** | Live buses, trams, metros, trains and ferries with delayed playback between reports, selected-vehicle trails, and mode-coloured DETECT labels — Boston, Austin, Minneapolis, Helsinki, the Netherlands, Norway, South East Queensland | Operator GTFS-Realtime feeds | 🟢 |
| 🚲 **Bikeshare** | Live station availability | GBFS | 🟢 |
| 🧭 **Directions** | Click A and B on the globe for a street-following drive, walk or cycle route draped on the terrain with turn-by-turn steps — then FLY the camera along it. No key, no geocoder, no mic | OSRM on FOSSGIS servers (OpenStreetMap) | 🟢 |
| 🔥 **Active Fires** | Live NASA FIRMS detections, trailing 24h | NASA FIRMS | 🟡 |
| 🚀 **Space Missions** | Rolling 30-day launches with payload, stage, and recovery detail | Launch Library 2 | 🟢 (🟡 optional token raises the allowance) |
| 🎖️ **Mapped Installations** | Viewport-bounded military-site context from community mapping — incomplete by nature, and labeled that way | OpenStreetMap | 🟢 |
| Layer | What you get | Source | Auth |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🗺️ **Map Stack** | Esri satellite imagery, Google Photorealistic 3D, OSM, plus additional ion-hosted stacks | Esri / Google / Ion / OSM | 🟢 Esri satellite + OSM · 🟡 ion-hosted Google 3D + world terrain · 🔴 direct Google + place search |
| ✈️ **Live Flights** | 11,000+ live aircraft + route history | OpenSky + adsb.lol | 🟢 (🟡 optional for more polling credits) |
| 🎖️ **Military Flights** | ADS-B military traffic in amber | adsb.lol | 🟢 |
| 🚢 **Live Vessels** | Thousands of ships worldwide | AISStream | 🟡 |
| 🛰️ **Satellites** | 838-object catalog, color-coded by class with a live legend — the **DENSE** chip drops in the whole Starlink shell | CelesTrak | 🟢 |
| 🌍 **Earthquakes** | Global seismic activity, last 24h | USGS | 🟢 |
| 🚗 **Traffic** | Simulated vehicles on OSM roads. With TomTom, live flow speeds drive the simulation and congestion colors below ~8 km; individual vehicle positions are not live observations | TomTom + OSM | 🟢 simulation · 🟡 live flow speeds |
| 📹 **CCTV Mesh** | ~3,600 public cameras projected _into_ the 3D space — Austin · Texas (TxDOT) · California (Caltrans) · London (TfL) · Ontario (511) · Finland (Fintraffic) · British Columbia (DriveBC) · Estonia (Tallinn, Tarktee) · Delaware (DelDOT live video) · New South Wales (Live Traffic NSW) · Calgary. Positions are published; poses are estimated priors **you calibrate by dragging a gizmo on the camera itself** | City APIs | 🟢 |
| 📷 **Mapped ALPR Cameras** | License-plate-reader camera locations tagged by OpenStreetMap contributors, loaded one city-sized view at a time, with **SHOW NEAREST**. Locations and tags only: no plate data, no video | OpenStreetMap (incl. DeFlock mapping) | 🟢 |
| 📷 **Street Level** | Mapillary coverage drawn onto the streets from orbit down to a single road, image cones per sequence, an embedded MapillaryJS viewer with a **CAMERA FOLLOWS VIEW** mode, and a plain-English query box (_"show me all fire hydrants in Sacramento"_) that streams Mapillary's detected objects and traffic signs onto the globe with Mapillary's own icons | Mapillary (+ Anthropic for the query box) | 🟡 Mapillary client token · 🔴 Anthropic key for plain-English queries only |
| 📻 **Radio** | Geolocated world radio with an **analog tuner** — drag the needle across up to 750 stations and the globe flies to each broadcaster | Radio Browser / broadcasters | 🟢 |
| 🚌 **Transit** | Live buses, trams, metros, trains and ferries with delayed playback between reports, selected-vehicle trails, and mode-coloured DETECT labels — Boston, Austin, Minneapolis, Helsinki, the Netherlands, Norway, South East Queensland | Operator GTFS-Realtime feeds | 🟢 |
| 🚲 **Bikeshare** | Live station availability | GBFS | 🟢 |
| 🧭 **Directions** | Click A and B on the globe for a street-following drive, walk or cycle route draped on the terrain with turn-by-turn steps — then FLY the camera along it. No key, no geocoder, no mic | OSRM on FOSSGIS servers (OpenStreetMap) | 🟢 |
| 🔥 **Active Fires** | Live NASA FIRMS detections, trailing 24h | NASA FIRMS | 🟡 |
| 🚀 **Space Missions** | Rolling 30-day launches with payload, stage, and recovery detail | Launch Library 2 | 🟢 (🟡 optional token raises the allowance) |
| 🎖️ **Mapped Installations** | Viewport-bounded military-site context from community mapping — incomplete by nature, and labeled that way | OpenStreetMap | 🟢 |
| 🌬️ **Wind** | Animated 10 m forecast wind with an optional speed, temperature or pressure color field and a reading at map center | NOAA GFS / ECMWF IFS | 🟢 |
| 🌦️ **Observed Weather** | Rain radar (contiguous US), Satellite clouds (GOES regional or global infrared, Clouds only or Full image) and Lightning density (Americas and Pacific) on one history timeline | NOAA nowCOAST | 🟢 |
| 🌀 **Cyclones** | Advisory positions, forecast tracks and uncertainty cones for the Atlantic and eastern/central North Pacific | NOAA NHC / CPHC | 🟢 |
**Weather, keyless.** **Wind** animates 10 m forecast flow from NOAA GFS or ECMWF IFS, with an optional color field and a reading at map center. **Rain radar**, **Satellite clouds** and **Lightning density** are observations on one history timeline in the **WEATHER** panel (step back, **Play**, **Latest**); **Cyclone advisories** draw NHC and CPHC positions, forecast tracks and cones. On Google 3D Tiles the observed layers float above the city as translucent shells, sharpened around your view.
In the app, **Data Layers** groups them as Movement, Cameras, Infrastructure, Events, Weather and Utilities.
**The basemap ladder — what each tier buys you:**
@@ -305,7 +312,7 @@ Sixteen layers and map sources. **Thirteen have a keyless path.** Some offer add
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟢 Nothing | Esri World Imagery satellite basemap + keyless terrain, in 2D. OSM takes over automatically if Esri is unreachable; if terrain is unavailable the globe continues without it |
| 🟡 A free Cesium ion token | **Google Photorealistic 3D cities** and world terrain — eligible personal, non-commercial use; current ion terms and quotas apply |
| 🔴 A Google Maps key | The same 3D direct from Google, plus in-app place search — the billing-enabled, metered route |
| 🔴 A Google Maps key | The same 3D direct from Google, plus Google place search — the billing-enabled, metered route |
![A reconstructed Falcon 9 ascent climbing and curving into its projected orbit](docs/media/08-falcon9-replay.gif)
@@ -319,6 +326,12 @@ _The Space Missions layer replaying a Falcon 9 ascent — labeled `RECONSTRUCTED
---
## 📷 Street Level (Mapillary)
> Needs a free **Mapillary client token**; the plain-English query box additionally needs an **Anthropic key**. Both go in POWER UP.
Turn on **Street Level (Mapillary)** under DATA LAYERS → Cameras, or open the STREET LEVEL strip in the right rail. Mapillary's coverage draws as ground-hugging lines (recent captures bright green, older ones dim, 360° panoramas magenta); click a line for its image cones and a cone to open the photo in the embedded MapillaryJS viewer. **EXPAND** grows the viewer to most of the screen and **CAMERA FOLLOWS VIEW** drives the globe camera from the panorama. With an Anthropic key, type a request such as _"stop signs in downtown Detroit"_ and the matching detections stream onto the globe tile by tile with Mapillary's own icons; click one to see the photo with the detection outlined. Mapillary blurs faces and licence plates before publishing imagery, and the globe credits "© Mapillary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0" while the layer is on.
## 🎖️ Field Missions
Once the basics click, run these:
@@ -362,7 +375,7 @@ How the globe handles live data:
- **Honest satellites.** SGP4 propagation with orbit rings that stay locked to their satellites via GMST realignment — no drift, no per-second flicker.
- **Sits on the real ground.** Entity heights are aligned to work with Google 3D tiles, so aircraft park on aprons and cameras stand on street corners instead of floating.
- **Caching and request budgets.** An OpenSky credit governor, a TomTom daily tile budget, and disk-cached TLEs reduce repeated requests. These controls do not replace provider quotas or billing controls.
- **Server-side credentials.** Every API that touches a private key (OpenAI, AISStream, OpenSky OAuth, camera frames) is brokered through a hardened server-side proxy with SSRF protection, response caps, and sanitized errors. The only keys the browser sees are Google Maps, Cesium ion and the Mapillary client token (restrict them at the provider; Mapillary client tokens are designed to be public).
- **Server-side credentials.** Every API that touches a private key (OpenAI, AISStream, OpenSky OAuth, camera frames) is brokered through a hardened server-side proxy with SSRF protection, response caps, and sanitized errors. The only keys the browser sees are Google Maps and Cesium ion (restrict both at the provider).
- **No framework.** Vanilla JavaScript, **CesiumJS**, and **Vite** — plus **Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles** for the planet and the **OpenAI Realtime API** for voice. Fast to read, fast to hack on.
```
@@ -372,7 +385,8 @@ src/
├── hud.js # Intelligence HUD + AI scene summary
├── keySetup.js # POWER UP panel — in-app provider keys (dev server only)
├── mapStackController.js # Basemap switching — Google 3D / Esri / OSM / ion stacks
├── voice/ # OpenAI Realtime session + 28 voice tools
├── voice/ # OpenAI Realtime session + 29 voice tools
├── layers/ # Layer components — weather, wind, cyclones, transit, ALPR, …
├── data/ # One module per layer + orchestration + context store
│ ├── iconOrientation.js # Screen-projected headings + horizon cull
│ └── local_data/ # Bundled datasets (per-folder provenance)
@@ -392,20 +406,25 @@ each provider enables; none is required to start. See the
[setup instructions](#then-power-it-up--in-the-app-not-in-a-file) for storage
and configuration details.
No key needed for Wind, Rain radar, Satellite clouds, Lightning density,
Cyclone advisories, Mapped ALPR Cameras, Transit, Directions, Delaware live
video, and coordinate or bundled-place search. A layer row waiting on a key
names it.
### Choose the capabilities you want
Six keys. Four have a free tier, and the two 🔴 ones are metered:
Eight keys. Five have a free tier, and the three 🔴 ones are metered:
| | Key | Why | Get it |
| --- | --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟡 | **Cesium ion** | 🗺️ Google Photorealistic 3D, world terrain, and additional ion-hosted imagery stacks. The free Community plan is for eligible individual, personal/non-commercial use and has quotas | [cesium.com/ion](https://cesium.com/ion) — use a public `assets:read` token and check current [pricing/eligibility](https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-ion/pricing/) |
| 🔴 | **Google Maps** | Direct Google Photorealistic 3D + Google place search ([Map Tiles API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile)) | [Google Cloud Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/) — URL-restrict it |
| 🔴 | **OpenAI** | 🎙️ The voice experience + AI HUD summary. The mini model works; the standard model is noticeably smarter. Want Gemini or another provider behind the mic? PRs welcome | [platform.openai.com](https://platform.openai.com) — metered, see costs below |
| 🟡 | **AISStream** | 🚢 Live global ships | [aisstream.io](https://aisstream.io) — free signup |
| 🟡 | **NASA FIRMS** | 🔥 Live active fires | [firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov](https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/map_key/) — free |
| 🟡 | **TomTom** | 🚦 Live flow speeds and congestion colors for the simulated traffic layer | [developer.tomtom.com](https://developer.tomtom.com) — free tier available |
| 🟡 | **Mapillary** | 📷 Street-level coverage, sequences and the embedded viewer, plus the detected objects + traffic signs behind the plain-English query box. A client token runs in the browser by design (MapillaryJS fetches imagery directly) | [mapillary.com/dashboard/developers](https://www.mapillary.com/dashboard/developers) — register an app, copy the client token |
| 🔴 | **Anthropic** | 🧠 the plain-English query box — turns a sentence into a Mapillary query plan (Claude, low effort, prompt-cached; a few cents per hundred questions). Server-side only | [console.anthropic.com](https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys) — metered |
| | Key | Why | Get it |
| --- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟡 | **Cesium ion** | 🗺️ Google Photorealistic 3D, world terrain, and additional ion-hosted imagery stacks. The free Community plan is for eligible individual, personal/non-commercial use and has quotas | [cesium.com/ion](https://cesium.com/ion) — use a public `assets:read` token and check current [pricing/eligibility](https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-ion/pricing/) |
| 🔴 | **Google Maps** | Direct Google Photorealistic 3D + Google place search ([Map Tiles API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile)) | [Google Cloud Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/) — URL-restrict it |
| 🔴 | **OpenAI** | 🎙️ The voice experience + AI HUD summary. The mini model works; the standard model is noticeably smarter. Want Gemini or another provider behind the mic? PRs welcome | [platform.openai.com](https://platform.openai.com) — metered, see costs below |
| 🟡 | **AISStream** | 🚢 Live global ships | [aisstream.io](https://aisstream.io) — free signup |
| 🟡 | **NASA FIRMS** | 🔥 Live active fires | [firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov](https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/map_key/) — free |
| 🟡 | **TomTom** | 🚦 Live flow speeds and congestion colors for the simulated traffic layer | [developer.tomtom.com](https://developer.tomtom.com) — free tier available |
| 🟡 | **Mapillary** | 📷 Street-level coverage, photos and detected objects on the globe. A public client token by design (see SECURITY.md) | [mapillary.com/dashboard/developers](https://www.mapillary.com/dashboard/developers) — register an app, copy its Client Token |
| 🔴 | **Anthropic** | 💬 Plain-English questions in the Street Level panel, turned into Mapillary queries server-side. Coverage, photos and filters work without it | [console.anthropic.com](https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys) — metered, roughly a cent per question |
![Diving from city-scale live congestion straight into an intersection's public camera](docs/media/05-traffic-to-cctv.gif)
@@ -424,8 +443,10 @@ Add these if you need higher polling allowances.
where each configured provider was found without printing credential values.
On macOS its Keychain-aware result previews `./scripts/dev-fresh.sh`; plain
`npm run dev` reads only explicit environment and Vite dotenv values. The
OpenSky summary reports only OAuth client-pair presence, not the resolved
runtime mode or credential validity; Basic and credentials-file modes remain
OpenSky summary reports keyless anonymous access for explicit `anon` or an
OAuth mode without a client pair, retains presence-only wording for a complete
OAuth pair, and identifies selected Basic or auto mode without guessing which
credentials runtime will accept. Basic and credentials-file modes remain
advanced `dev-fresh.sh` configuration.
<details>
@@ -449,15 +470,35 @@ OpenSky can run fully anonymous (`OPENSKY_AUTH_MODE=anon`), or import OAuth cred
</details>
<details>
<summary>Live video cameras (HLS)</summary>
CCTV sources with `"feedType": "hls"` and a registered HTTP(S) `.m3u8`
URL play through a lazily loaded hls.js decoder shared by the monitor plane
and panel. DelDOT uses its official HTTPS HLS catalog links. Disable that
pack with `CCTV_DELDOT_ENABLED=0`.
The server allows two concurrent sessions. Each retains at most 12 segments
and 24 MiB in memory; individual downloads are capped at 4 MiB with a ten
second deadline. There are no segment files or ffmpeg processes. Redirects,
off-origin references, encrypted playlists and non-MPEG-TS segments are refused.
Each decoder has its own client lease (at most eight per session), including
native HLS. Closing it releases only that lease; abandoned leases expire after
15 seconds without access. The last release stops upstream work. Failed live video
uses the existing still/Street View/synthetic fallback, which is not live video.
RTMP-only sources are not supported by this integration.
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### 💸 What it actually costs
Honest numbers, roughly, as of mid-2026 — always check the provider pricing pages:
| | Cost reality |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **🟢 Most layers** | **$0, no signup.** OpenSky anon, USGS, CelesTrak, adsb.lol, city CCTV, Radio Browser, GBFS, Launch Library 2, bundled datasets. |
| **🟢 Most layers** | **$0, no signup.** OpenSky anon, USGS, CelesTrak, adsb.lol, city CCTV, Radio Browser, GBFS, Launch Library 2, transit feeds, OSRM routing, NOAA and ECMWF weather, OpenStreetMap ALPR mapping, bundled datasets. |
| **🟡 The free-key tier** | **$0 with a signup.** AISStream, FIRMS, TomTom, OpenSky, plus Cesium ion for eligible personal/non-commercial use. Provider quotas and eligibility still apply. |
| **🗺️ Google 3D tiles** | **Free through an eligible Cesium ion Community account within its quota; metered through a direct Google key.** Use the direct route for GEV place search or commercial deployment, verify current provider terms, and set budget alerts where billing is enabled. |
| **🗺️ Google 3D tiles** | **Free through an eligible Cesium ion Community account within its quota; metered through a direct Google key.** Use the direct route for Google place search or commercial deployment, verify current provider terms, and set budget alerts where billing is enabled. |
| **🔴 OpenAI voice** | **The one that costs real money — so the app meters it for you.** Realtime audio runs a few cents per active minute; an evening of heavy use is single-digit dollars. A live session-spend readout sits next to the mic, with an STD/MINI model toggle, a $2 warning, and a **$5 hard cap that ends the session**. The voice context window is kept deliberately short too. |
Google's direct 3D route is surprisingly generous: the first 1,000 Photorealistic