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PANOPTES

Created by Paarth Jawalkar. An Earth explorer. Well optimized.

Data and credits

Credits are ordered by what makes this view useful, while each source is named for the part it supplies. On-map provider attribution remains visible.

• Bing Maps aerial imagery: the visible Earth imagery arrives through Cesium ion. PANOPTES adds its own interface and controls; Bing does not supply live aircraft or station locations.
• CesiumJS and Cesium ion: one credit for the 3D globe renderer, world terrain, imagery delivery, OSM Buildings, and built-in water-mask sun glint when enabled. There is no third-party live ocean camera or custom ray tracing. CesiumJS is Apache-2.0 licensed; terrain, imagery and buildings have separate terms.
• Where the ISS at?: reported ISS position and orbital elements. PANOPTES calculates the single predicted orbit with satellite.js; the line is not recorded travel or a live camera view.
• TLE API: a candidate for Tiangong orbital elements. It returned inconsistent epochs, so PANOPTES has paused the Tiangong marker and track rather than claiming a current position.
• Open-Meteo: model temperature for the optional broad-area color overlay, CC BY 4.0. PANOPTES interpolates coarse points; this is not a street-level reading.
• OpenStreetMap contributors and Nominatim: OSM building/place data, plus geographic search and reverse geocoding. They do not provide PANOPTES live satellite positions.
• Wikipedia and Wikidata: landmark search and ranking. Wikipedia text is not republished; Wikidata is CC0.
• NASA 3D Resources: ISS model, compressed and enlarged for visibility. NASA live ISS views: third-party video opened on demand, not a guaranteed always-live interior feed. NASA does not endorse PANOPTES.
• satellite.js: MIT-licensed SGP4 calculations using external orbital elements, not its own live tracking data.
• Nasalization by Typodermic Fonts: supplied static PANOPTES wordmark image. Body text uses system fonts.

Aircraft positions are paused; no flight provider supplies live positions to this preview. The candidate adsb.lol feed failed upstream, so this page does not credit it as active flight data. Other emailed providers have not yet replied. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles are not enabled. This app is not for navigation.

Help

Search for a place, then drag and pinch to explore. Tap the compass to face north. Tap the eye to return to Earth. Hold the eye to clear the current view.

FAQ

Why are flights paused? The free data feed is unavailable right now. No flights are invented. Why do some buildings look plain? This view uses open building geometry, not photorealistic models.

Contact

Questions or feedback? Email paarthjawalkar+panoptes@gmail.com.

GitHub: github.com/paarthjawalkar ↗

PANOPTES / HELP

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Flights are paused until a permitted live feed works. PANOPTES is not for navigation.