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overwatch.earth is a free, real-time 3D globe that overlays 32 live global data layers on one interactive Earth — flights, ships, earthquakes, wildfires, satellites and more. It aggregates open, public real-time feeds and places them on one map; the data belongs to the agencies and communities that produce it, and every source is credited. No login; analytics are privacy-respecting and opt-in — see cookies & privacy below.
Data sources & credits
Every layer is an open, public real-time feed — fully credited, with what it shows, its update cadence and live count.
Retention — positions kept; analytics expire after 90 days
Privacy — first-party stats are cookieless; raw IPs never stored
Embed the globe
Add the live globe to your own site — it links back here:
<iframe src="https://overwatch.earth/embed" width="640" height="420" style="border:0;border-radius:12px" loading="lazy" title="overwatch.earth live globe"></iframe>
You can also focus a single layer: append ?layer=flights (or any layer slug) to the embed URL.
Cookies & privacy
No cookies are set until you choose “Start” on the globe. If you decline, you're brought to this page and nothing non-essential is stored. Everything that can be stored in your browser:
Google Analytics — loaded only after you Start. Sets first-party cookies (_ga, ~13 months) for anonymous, aggregate usage stats; declining sets none.
Cloudflare — our CDN may set a strictly-necessary security cookie (__cf_bm, ~30 min) to protect the site from bots, not for tracking.
Umami analytics — our primary analytics: a cookieless, privacy-friendly tool (self-hosted at analytics.tuxxin.com) that counts anonymous page views site-wide. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no personal data.
First-party diagnostics — cookieless: error/crash reports (and usage events) where your IP is one-way hashed with a rotating secret and never stored raw; a per-tab id (browser sessionStorage, not a cookie) de-duplicates views.
Your choice — remembered in localStorage (ow_consent_v1) — not a cookie, never sent anywhere.
No advertising cookies, no cross-site trackers, no data sales. To withdraw consent, clear this site's data in your browser settings.