Interactive world maps and globes
Interactive maps and 3D globes for exploring history, geography, live world events, OSINT data layers, and custom map posters, built for curious general audiences and news followers.
Built for: History, geography and geopolitics enthusiasts
Projects since May 04
180
Different builders
167
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+12%
AI is the core
4.4%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (72%), mobile app (13%), browser extension (5.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/chrome_extensions
Latest
- SaferNeighbor — Generates a neighborhood safety report for any US address combining crime, sex offender, school, demographic, traffic and environmental data.“[SaferNeighbor] - Free neighborhood safety report for any US address”
- Hourline — Shows a world clock for saved cities with a sky that follows local day and night, letting users drag to change the time and compare it across cities.“I made a world clock that lets you move through a city’s day”
- StudiaStoria — Offers a browser quiz game where players guess whether the next historical event happened before or after the one shown, plus history summaries and study tools.“My historical timeline game became unexpectedly popular in Italy, so I just translated it into English, German, and French.”
- vasus — Returns JSON with AI-synthesized health-and-environment insights and cited research papers for a given location and health context.“I built an API for health and fitness builders - Add weather readings x cited science research to your app”
- sno.cam — Shows a map of public snow cameras worldwide with latest images and playback of recorded history.“I made a website for exploring snow cameras around the world”
- renametheworld — Lets anyone rename places like countries, cities, lakes, streets and landmarks on a shared world map.“If the orange man gets to rename shit, why can’t we?”
- Chronoatlas — Lets users debate AI-played Roman senators in a historical simulation and explores events on a map.“I won a debate against AI Roman senators and saved Carthage. Cato lost, but still said it must be destroyed | Chronoatlas.nl”
- CARTA — Turns cities, favorite places, and GPX routes into customizable map art posters, wallpapers, and print-ready PDFs.“A tiny Android idea: make your favorite route worth hanging onto”
- Worldline — Organizes alternate history worldbuilding notes into linked encyclopedia entries, timelines, period maps, conlang pages and a collaborative writing space.“Worldline-a platform designed for people to fulfill and 'vividify' their fantasy”
- Move Where USA — Helps people compare US places to decide where to move.“Experimenting with YouTube for Promoting MoveWhereUsa.com”
- Earthlapse — Lets users explore Earth's history on an interactive timeline and globe, with key events, AI-generated scenes, and map overlays.“I built Earthlapse - an interactive visual timeline of Earth's entire history, from the beginning of life to the era of dinosaurs and grief of human civilization.”
- DotMap — Lets users build interactive maps by placing and linking points on a canvas.“I created a user-friendly interactive map builder. DotMap”
- Actual Scale — Shows map shapes of cities, states and countries resized so each holds the same population as the real place, letting users drag them around.“After three years of working on and off I now know there are more people in Manhattan than the ocean”
- urbanly — Runs an agent-based city simulation in the browser where visitors make small planning changes and see the results.“We replaced our product slides with the product itself: our homepage is now a live city simulation”
- Globestudio — Generates styled dotted world maps and spinning 3D globes in the browser and exports them as images, videos or embeds.“I built a free, open-source tool for dotted maps and 3D globes”
- Sky Score — Scores a UK or New York postcode on aircraft noise, air quality, flood risk, crime, schools, transport, healthcare and house prices using open government data.“I built a free map that scores any postcode for aircraft noise, air quality and flood risk, using only open government data”
- Low Poly Earth — Renders an explorable low-poly 3D Earth from map and elevation data, letting users fly from orbit to street level.“I spent 80 days building a 3D low-poly version of the entire Earth”
- Rouge Atlas — Maps incidents and events from around the world on an interactive map with a dashboard for filtering them.“I'm building Rouge Atlas, an interactive map to explore what's happening around the world”
- Jersey Cams — Plots publicly available Monmouth County, NJ live camera feeds on an interactive map and links out to each feed.“I got tired of hunting for NJ traffic and beach cams, so I put them all on one map”
- NewsMap — Combines news feeds with public government data like weather alerts, earthquakes, floods, and river gauges on one map for a chosen location.“I built a map that combines news, weather alerts, earthquakes, floods, river gauges, and other public data. The current nor’easter is a great example.”
Most discussed
- Expeditione — Lets visitors explore interactive 3D dioramas of ancient Egyptian life, monuments and the Giza Plateau in the browser.“I spent 1,000+ hours building an interactive 3D reconstruction of Ancient Egypt for the web. Entire scenes are ~1–2MB, no ads, no logins.”
- OSIRIS — Displays live aircraft, satellites, cameras, disasters and OSINT lookup tools on an interactive 3D globe.“Open Source Palantir”
- Waterline — Renders an interactive 3D globe or 2D map of Earth with adjustable sea level, including drained or inverted relief views.“I made a 3D or 2D earth visualization where you can change sea levels”
- EarthView — Shows which cities lie on the opposite side of the planet when the phone is pointed at the ground.“I built an app where you can see what cities are on the other side of the earth”
- IntMap — Overlays climate zones, land cover, population density, democracy index, submarine cables, flight traffic, nighttime lights and satellite imagery on one interactive world map.“I got tired of opening 10 tabs for geography, climate, satellite imagery and world events, so I built this map”
- Shows an interactive Earth website with layers for satellites, moon exploration, the solar system, earthquakes, and ocean currents.“I had GPT-6 add Satellites in orbit, Moon exploration, Solar System view, Earthquakes, and Ocean currents to my earth website.”
- printm — Generates printable map posters of any place on Earth in many styles, with 3D terrain, route overlays, and rotating map videos.“I built a free map poster maker — any place on Earth, 3D terrain, and it records a rotating video of your map”
- Rename America — Lets anyone rename US cities, states and lakes on a crowdsourced map, keeping previous names available to restore.“I made a map of America anyone can edit. People have renamed things over 7,800 times”
- movewhereusa — Ranks US towns against user-set priorities such as allergen levels, budget, mountain views, and job markets.“What's your ideal place to live?”
- Bloom — Lets anonymous users plant flower emoji on a shared world map that grow over 24 hours.“I'm so excited - 1000 flowers!”