Guides
How to use the live map for the things people look up: following a flight or a bus, reading the weather, spotting GPS jamming, and the history behind the borders. Each one is checked against the data the map really has.
- How to track a flight liveHow to find a flight on a live ADS-B map, see its route, altitude and speed, follow it, send a link that follows it, and know where coverage runs out.
- How to follow buses and trains liveWatch buses, trams and trains move in real time, and tell a live GPS position from an estimate or a timetable: what each marker means and where it works.
- How to track ships liveHow ships report their position over AIS, what a ship on the live map tells you, how to follow one, and how to watch traffic through the world’s chokepoints.
- Where is the ISS right now?How to follow the International Space Station live on a map: where its position comes from, how its orbit works, and how to find its next passes over you.
- What GPS jamming looks like on a mapHow a live map finds GPS jamming from what aircraft say about their own position: the signal it reads, the thresholds, where it shows up, and its limits.
- How to read a METARA METAR decoded field by field with a worked example, the VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR flight categories and their limits, and how the live map colours each airport.
- Weather radar or forecast model?Which weather layers on a live map were measured, by radar, lightning sensors, airports and satellites, and which are model values, and why that matters.
- How the aurora forecast worksWhat an aurora forecast map shows: NOAA’s OVATION model, the auroral oval, what the Kp index means, and when and where to look for the northern lights.
- The world in 1914, explainedThe empires, alliances and borders of 1914, on the eve of the First World War, and how to watch the war unfold year by year on TAKIP’s historical map.
- World War II borders, month by monthHow Europe’s borders and occupations changed from 1938 to 1945, month by month, and how to play the war through on an interactive historical map.
- Türkiye’s earthquake history on a mapTürkiye’s earthquake record on a map: the faults behind it, the strongest and deadliest quakes of the last century, and where to watch today’s quakes live.