Open Overwatch is a live map of everything moving on Earth: aircraft, satellites, ships, storms and quakes, pulled from public feeds and drawn in your browser.
That count is one real sweep of the map. Satellites, ships, storms and quakes run right here; live planes need the free download, a tiny helper on your own machine.
Every number below is what the map was actually showing at 21:13 UTC on 1 October 2026. Nothing staged, nothing rounded. Open it now and you get tonight's numbers instead.
It feels like sitting in an ops room you weren't meant to find. Click a plane and you get its callsign, altitude and type. Click a satellite and its ground track unrolls across the map. Click a traffic camera in London or Singapore and you see that street's latest frame.
Recorded from the app, not mocked up. Same screen on your phone and your desktop.
The space station crosses your sky a few minutes at a time. Tonight above you tells you when, in plain words: space station and Starlink passes, the planets and the Moon, meteor showers, aurora, cloud cover and rocket launches, with reminders so you're outside at the right minute.
What's above me tonight?The 3D globe and the Solar System view zoom out from a street past the planets and 1.5 million asteroids, then 6,339 exoplanets, nearby stars and 43,000 galaxies, out to the cosmic web.
Night vision, thermal in white hot, black hot or ironbow, an old CRT, or noir, over the whole live planet. Turn on the tactical HUD for grid references and ground resolution, box what's in view, ride the space station from its cockpit, or say “take me to Tokyo” and it flies there. Then cast a live traffic camera's picture into the 3D city from where it stands, and sit in its seat. No key, no account, no install.
The looks are stylised: “thermal” turns brightness and edges into heat colours; it is not a real infrared picture. Voice works in Chrome, Edge and Safari and uses the browser's own speech service (details in the notices). Live planes, and so a plane's cockpit, still need the download.
Open the 3D globeAn email. A cookie banner. An analytics pixel. A subscription for the “pro” layers.
Open Overwatch asks for none of it.
No sign-up, no email, no cookies, no analytics. Your settings stay in your own browser's storage.
The site is static files on GitHub Pages. There's no Open Overwatch database, so there's no record of you to sell.
No build step, MIT licence. Plain HTML and JavaScript: read it, fork it, host it anywhere.
USGS, NOAA, NASA, CelesTrak, GDACS, adsb.lol and other public and volunteer feeds. Nothing scraped, nothing secret.
It's polite to those feeds too: it rate-limits itself, caches orbits for two hours and backs off when a source struggles. And the notices list exactly which services your browser talks to.
Switch layers on and off like an air-traffic controller. These six carry the map; the rest are a click away.
Every ADS-B transponder the volunteer networks can hear. Civil, military and emergency squawks, each in its own colour, with trails.
The ISS, Tiangong, weather satellites and GPS, their orbits computed in your browser from CelesTrak data, with ground tracks.
AIS positions for the Baltic out of the box. Add a free aisstream.io key and you get the world's shipping.
USGS quakes as they're reported, sized by magnitude, plus GDACS disaster alerts and NASA natural events.
Hurricanes and typhoons, precipitation radar, severe-weather alerts and the aurora forecast, on the same screen.
Public traffic cameras in London, New York, California, Singapore and Finland. Click one for its latest frame.
They fly in the 3D globe view. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.
Version 0.5 went live on 1 October. By 6 October it was 0.9.2.5, picking up a 3D globe, a Solar System view out to the cosmic web, Tonight above you, rocket launch countdowns, people in space and flight search along the way. You're not downloading a finished product. You're joining a build, and every step of it is public.
The newest version is selected. Every earlier release stays online, exactly as it shipped.
Pick an old version and launch it to see how far it has come. Full notes are on the changelog.
I'm Destin Jones. I vibe code Open Overwatch with Claude as my building partner: I describe what I want and test the results, and Claude writes most of the code. Everything ships in the open under the MIT licence, so please fork it and build anything you like with it.
Also by me: Ironbound, a free open source real-time strategy game where your city builds itself, and CarFinder, every new car on sale in 11 countries with what it really costs.
Right now, nothing to install.
Satellites, ships, storms, quakes, news, radar and cameras, plus the 3D globe and the Solar System.
Latest release · Windows · macOS · Linux
Adds live aircraft and military flights. About 70 MB. Unzip it, then double-click Start Open Overwatch.bat on Windows, or run python3 serve.py or node serve.js on Mac and Linux. Your browser opens the map at 127.0.0.1:8787 and every layer lights up.
Needs Python 3 or Node 18+ for the helper. To update, grab the new zip.
