God's Eye View is an open-source geospatial intelligence platform that fuses live public data feeds into a photorealistic 3D globe you can explore, annotate, and talk to — all running locally in a browser.
From Viral Videos to Open Source
The project originated from a YouTube series by filmmaker Bilal Sidhu that garnered over 5 million views on YouTube and 25 million across social media. When the audience demanded access to the tool behind the videos, Sidhu and co-maintainer Sameh Khamis (at Halfpixel) open-sourced it. God's Eye View hit 1 on GitHub Trending in both daily and weekly categories in August 2026, and was 8 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. It accumulated 2,680 GitHub stars in a single day.
What's on the Globe
Thirteen data layers feed the globe, most running without any API key:
- Live Flights: 11,000+ aircraft from OpenSky and adsb.lol, with route history and a 250 km contact roster - Military Flights: ADS-B military traffic highlighted in amber - Live Vessels: Thousands of ships worldwide via AISStream - Satellites: 838-object catalog from CelesTrak, color-coded by class — including a "DENSE" mode that drops in the entire Starlink shell - Earthquakes: Global seismic activity from USGS, last 24 hours - Traffic: Simulated vehicles on real roads using TomTom and OSM data - CCTV Mesh: ~800 public cameras projected into the 3D space — Austin, California, and London - Radio: Geolocated world radio with an analog tuner - Active Fires: NASA FIRMS satellite detections, trailing 24 hours - Space Missions: Rolling 30-day launches with payload, stage, and recovery detail - Mapped Installations: Military sites from OpenStreetMap community mapping - Submarine Cables, Dams, Datacenters: Bundled static infrastructure datasets
The Cockpit
Every aircraft on the globe can be ridden. The camera locks onto a tracked flight and follows it down through the atmosphere, with the terrain holding underneath. Users can switch sensor modes mid-flight — normal, night vision (NVG), FLIR thermal imaging, CRT, and more.
Voice Control
With an optional OpenAI key, the globe responds to natural language commands with 28 tools across four roles: directing the camera, annotating the world, interrogating data layers, and operating the console hands-free.
Technical Architecture
Vanilla JavaScript, CesiumJS, and Vite — no framework. Aircraft and ships maintain world-stable icons via per-frame screen-space projection. Live feeds arrive every 15–30 seconds with dead-reckoning interpolation. SGP4 propagation keeps satellite orbits locked. All private-key APIs brokered server-side with SSRF protection.
Privacy by Design
The project models events, assets, infrastructure, and systems — not people. No named-person search, face recognition, or individual tracking.
A hosted version is in development at Halfpixel. The open-source repository is MIT-licensed.
