The world as it happens, on one map

Each of these streams lives on its own site, with its own map and its own way of showing things. Put together they tell you far more: the planes over your city and the storm they are flying around, the ships queueing outside a strait, the coast a quake has just shaken and the cameras that look at it, the satellite passing over you tonight.

TAKIP is made for looking, watching and understanding. Open it on a quiet evening and follow the ISS, or open it on a busy news day and see where things are happening. Takip is Turkish for keeping track.

• Replay plays back what TAKIP has recorded, so you can scrub through the flights and ships of an earlier day.
• History is an atlas of the past: the world’s borders through the centuries, and the continents drifting over hundreds of millions of years.
• Space leaves the Earth for a real-time 3D view of the satellites around it and the planets beyond.
• Areas let you draw a shape on the map, see what is inside it, and keep a log of what enters and leaves.
• TI is an assistant that reads the map with you and answers questions about what is on it, using the AI key you give it.
• Share what you are looking at, an aircraft, a ship, a satellite or a place, and the link opens the same view, as it is when it is opened.

Every layer says where its data comes from and how fresh it is. Where something is estimated, inferred or run from a timetable rather than seen live, the map says so. Coverage is uneven: aircraft and ships show up where receivers hear them, and a city has cameras only if it publishes them. Each layer’s page lists what it can’t tell you.

TAKIP is free. Without an account you get a daily allowance of map time, and a free account gives you more. The free plans show a few ads, never on the map. What TAKIP keeps about your visit is set out plainly on the privacy page.

Read the privacy page