The internet gives us an extraordinary amount of information about what is happening around the world. The problem is that the information remains scattered. Aircraft are shown on one website, ships on another, earthquakes somewhere else, weather on another platform, satellite fire detections in a different system, radio stations in yet another directory, and maps form an entirely separate layer. Even when all this information is publicly available, understanding how different events relate to a particular place often requires moving between several websites and mentally joining the pieces together.

Anindya World View is my attempt to bring much of that publicly available information into one visual environment.

It is now integrated into AnindyaNandi.com as an interactive global information interface built around a three-dimensional Earth. Instead of beginning with a conventional search box or a list of news reports, you begin with the planet itself. You can move across the globe, search for a place, examine activity around it, switch data layers, inspect aircraft or vessels, look at environmental events, explore space activity, listen to radio stations and, where supported, use Arka to interact with the system through voice.

The public gateway is available here:

Anindya World View: ¹
https://anindyanandi.com/world/

The underlying standalone World View application can also be opened directly here:

Direct World View: ²
https://eye.anindyanandi.com/

Why I Built Anindya World View

Most websites present the world as text. A headline tells us that an earthquake has occurred somewhere. A weather report tells us that a storm is developing somewhere else. A flight-tracking service shows aircraft. A marine service shows ships. A map shows roads and places. Each is useful independently, but the geographical relationship between them is often missing.

Anindya World View reverses that approach.

The location comes first. Information is then placed around that location.

Suppose you are looking at the Arabian Sea. Instead of treating the sea merely as a blue area on a map, World View can potentially give you maritime contacts, nearby aircraft, mapped locations, weather conditions and other available contextual information from connected public sources. Move towards Japan and environmental events such as earthquakes become geographically meaningful. Move towards a major airport and aircraft movement becomes part of the landscape. Move towards a region affected by wildfires and satellite-detected thermal activity can be understood spatially.

The objective is not simply to display more data. It is to make different kinds of data geographically understandable.

From God's Eye View to Anindya World View

The underlying project began as what was internally called God's Eye View, an experimental concept for placing multiple real-world data feeds around an interactive Earth.

For its implementation on my website, it has been developed into a distinct public identity:

ANINDYA WORLD VIEW

with the description:

OPEN DATA · BASED ON GOD'S EYE VIEW

The distinction is important. Despite the appearance of an intelligence or surveillance interface, Anindya World View is not claiming access to classified intelligence, restricted government systems, private surveillance networks or secret tracking infrastructure.

It works by bringing together publicly available, openly accessible or properly connected data sources and presenting their information geographically. The live interface itself identifies data sources including OpenSky, ADSB.lol, AISStream, OpenStreetMap and Open-Meteo, while its environmental mode includes earthquake and fire information associated with USGS and NASA sources.¹

That distinction between intelligence and information is fundamental to the project. A surprising amount of what happens around the planet can already be observed through legitimate public data. The challenge is organising it.

How It Has Been Implemented on AnindyaNandi.com

Anindya World View operates as its own application on the dedicated eye.anindyanandi.com subdomain. The main AnindyaNandi.com website then provides a permanent World View gateway at /world/.

This architecture allows the World View application to remain technically independent while still functioning as part of the main website. Visitors entering through AnindyaNandi.com receive the full-screen World View experience without having to navigate through a conventional article layout, sidebar or menu-heavy page.

A prominent AnindyaNandi.com control remains available within the World View interface so that a visitor can return to the main site. The control has deliberately been designed in the cyan visual language of the World View rather than appearing as an unrelated website button.

The interface itself uses a cockpit-inspired design. Panels sit around the central visual field while the globe remains the primary object. Information appears contextually depending on what is selected, which layers are active and where the user is looking.

Starting Anindya World View for the First Time

When a visitor first opens World View, the system provides four primary ways to begin:

  • Live Contacts: Begin by looking at aircraft, vessels and nearby mapped intelligence.
  • Space Missions: Explore launches, spacecraft and orbital context.
  • Environmental: Look at live or recent earthquakes and active fire information.
  • Explore Manually: Start with the globe itself and decide independently what to examine.

There is also an option to prevent the first-launch screen from appearing again.

This makes World View usable at two different levels. Someone who simply wants to explore can begin with the globe, while a visitor looking for a particular type of information can move directly into that context. The current application describes these choices directly on its first-launch interface and identifies Arka Voice as another way of interacting with the map.

Searching Anywhere in the World

One of the simplest ways to use World View is through the location search.

Enter a city, landmark or other searchable geographical location and the globe can be repositioned towards it. Once there, the location becomes the centre around which other information can be explored.

This is where World View begins to differ from a normal globe.

You are not merely travelling virtually from Kolkata to London, Tokyo, New York or Cape Town. Once you reach a location, you can begin asking a different question:

What is happening around here?

That can lead into aircraft, ships, weather, environmental data, nearby mapped sites, regional information and other enabled layers.

Live Aircraft and Airspace Context

Aircraft are among the most visually interesting elements of World View.

The system uses publicly available aviation tracking information, including OpenSky-related flight data and an ADS-B source layer. OpenSky describes its API as providing live airspace information derived from aircraft state vectors, while ADSB.lol provides extensive aircraft position, speed, altitude, track and related ADS-B information.³ ⁴

When the relevant data is available, World View can present aircraft geographically and provide contextual parameters such as:

  • Ground speed
  • Altitude
  • Heading or course
  • Position
  • Nearby contacts
  • Available route context
  • Movement relative to the selected area

A contact does not have to remain just an icon floating over the globe. It can become the focus of the interface.

Entering the Cockpit

One of the more experimental parts of Anindya World View is the cockpit view.

When supported by available aircraft information, the visual perspective can shift from watching an aircraft externally to a course-aligned first-person representation. The interface includes aircraft-style information such as altitude, ground speed, directional information and optical-plane elements.

This is a visualisation of available tracking data rather than an actual feed from an aircraft cockpit.

That difference matters.

World View is reconstructing the geographical situation from available data. It is not connecting to an aircraft's internal navigation system or camera.

The result nevertheless changes the way aircraft tracking feels. Instead of looking at a dot travelling across a conventional two-dimensional map, you can begin to perceive direction, terrain, surrounding geography and nearby activity from a much more immersive perspective.

Ships and Maritime Activity

The same geographical approach extends to maritime traffic.

World View identifies AISStream as a maritime data source. AIS, or Automatic Identification System, is widely used for broadcasting vessel identity, position, course, speed and other navigational information. AISStream provides real-time maritime events through its AIS data infrastructure.⁵

Where information is available, vessels can therefore be treated as geographical contacts in much the same way as aircraft.

This becomes particularly interesting around major ports, shipping lanes, coastal regions, canals and strategic maritime passages. A visitor can visually understand that the ocean is not empty space. It contains moving networks of commercial shipping, maritime routes and other observed activity.

As with aircraft tracking, coverage should never be interpreted as complete. A vessel absent from a public AIS feed cannot automatically be assumed to be absent from the sea.

Roads, Places and Ground Context

Moving objects only become useful when they can be understood relative to places.

World View therefore uses mapped geographical context, including OpenStreetMap information. OpenStreetMap is an openly licensed world map created through collaborative mapping.⁶

This ground layer helps relate aircraft, vessels and events to actual geography such as cities, roads, coastlines, landmarks and mapped sites.

The World View is therefore not simply a collection of tracking markers. The underlying geography is an essential part of understanding why a marker matters.

Weather Around the Selected Region

Weather is integrated into the contextual view through Open-Meteo.

Depending on location and data availability, the interface can present information such as temperature, wind, sky conditions and precipitation. Open-Meteo combines weather models from a number of meteorological organisations and provides current and forecast weather information through its API.⁷

This becomes particularly useful when weather is viewed beside another layer.

An aircraft movement makes more sense when one can also understand the weather around it. Maritime activity is easier to contextualise alongside wind and weather. A wildfire becomes more meaningful when environmental conditions can be considered around the same geography.

World View is designed around precisely this type of layered observation.

Earthquakes and Environmental Events

Selecting Environmental from the opening screen gives another way of looking at the planet.

Earthquake information can be associated with data made available by the United States Geological Survey, which publishes real-time earthquake feeds and web services.⁸

Instead of reading that an earthquake occurred at a latitude and longitude, users can see the event in geographical relation to countries, coastlines, populated regions and other activity.

That spatial context can often explain more than coordinates alone.

Active Fires and Thermal Anomalies

The environmental system also incorporates active-fire information from NASA FIRMS, the Fire Information for Resource Management System.

NASA FIRMS distributes satellite-detected active fire and thermal anomaly data using observations from instruments including MODIS and VIIRS. NASA describes much of its global active fire information as near-real-time data.⁹

These detections are valuable, but they need to be interpreted carefully. A satellite thermal anomaly is not automatically proof that every part of the marked area is burning. NASA itself notes limitations involving resolution, cloud cover and the interpretation of thermal anomalies.

World View therefore treats these feeds as observed environmental information, not as an emergency-service replacement.

Space Missions and Orbital Context

World View is not limited to activity on the Earth's surface.

The Space Missions context provides a separate way to inspect launches, spacecraft and orbital activity. The interface maintains a mission-oriented environment in which available missions can be selected and explored relative to the globe.

This begins to connect terrestrial geography with activity above the planet.

Launch locations, trajectories, orbital objects and mission information are naturally geographical. A three-dimensional globe is therefore a particularly suitable environment in which to understand them.

Regional Information and Source-Backed Events

Another contextual component is regional information.

As the World View resolves the area being observed, the interface can acquire region-related information and present source-backed events. The system explicitly distinguishes this from synthetic news generation with the interface label SOURCE-BACKED EVENTS · NO SYNTHETIC NEWS.¹

The purpose is not to allow an AI system to invent an explanation for whatever appears on the globe. Where event information is presented, the aim is to connect the geographical view with source-based external information.

This distinction becomes increasingly important as AI-generated interfaces become more common. A visualisation should help a user investigate reality, not quietly manufacture it.

Live Radio From Around the World

World View also contains a radio layer.

When enabled, radio stations can be explored geographically, selected and played through the interface. The radio directory is associated with Radio Browser, an internet radio station directory.¹⁰

The interface includes station selection, tuning controls, previous and next station controls, playback and volume adjustment.

This creates a completely different kind of geographical experience.

You may visually explore a country and then listen to a radio station broadcasting from that region. Geography, live data and human culture begin to occupy the same interface.

The application also clearly informs visitors that when a station is played, the audio connects to the broadcaster and the broadcaster can consequently see the listener's IP address.¹

Public CCTV Where Sources Are Available

World View contains a CCTV framework, but this requires an important clarification.

The existence of a CCTV control does not mean that World View has access to private cameras.

The system is intended to work only with camera information that is publicly accessible or legitimately provided through connected sources. Where supported camera sources exist, controls can include functions such as selecting the nearest available camera, moving between cameras, focusing on a camera position, visualising coverage, projection and calibration.

There is also provision for scene summaries, allowing camera-linked information to be placed into the wider geographical context when such data is available.

If no source exists for the selected area, there is simply no camera information to show.

That principle applies throughout Anindya World View: absence of data is not replaced with invented data.

Drawing Directly on the World

World View also includes analytical drawing tools.

A user can create:

  • Areas
  • Lines
  • Pins
  • Optional labels

This might appear like a small feature, but it changes the globe from something that can merely be observed into something that can also be examined.

An area can mark a region of interest. A line can visually connect two places or represent a route. A pin can mark a particular observation.

It is a simple analytical layer placed directly over the geographical environment.

Different Ways of Seeing the Same World

The application includes several visual presets.

At present, these include:

  • Normal
  • CRT
  • NVG
  • FLIR
  • Anime
  • Noir
  • Snow

There are also controls for elements such as HUD display, detection density, 3D models, visual scope, bloom, sharpening and cleaner viewing modes.¹

Some of these are functional viewing modes, and others are primarily visual treatments. Their purpose is to allow the same geographical environment to be examined in very different ways without changing the underlying world being observed.

For a user who simply wants information, Normal mode is the natural starting point. For someone interested in the visual experience of the interface, the alternative styles turn World View into something much more experimental.

Meet Arka Inside World View

Arka, the AI assistant associated with AnindyaNandi.com, has also been integrated into the World View environment.

Instead of treating artificial intelligence as a separate chat window disconnected from the globe, the longer-term idea is for Arka to function as an intelligent interface between the visitor and the geographical system.

The World View first-launch screen already tells visitors:

**“ARKA VOICE lets you talk to the map.”**¹

Arka appears inside the interface through an animated avatar and voice interaction layer. When voice functionality is used, the interface can indicate listening and speaking states. The current voice implementation uses the Cedar voice.

The purpose of this integration is straightforward. Complex geographical interfaces can contain many controls. Voice interaction can gradually make some of those functions more natural.

Instead of thinking only in terms of buttons, layers and menus, the direction is towards interaction such as asking the system to locate something, explain what is being displayed or move towards a particular context.

Arka is therefore not intended merely as decoration beside the globe. It is being developed as part of the interface itself.

A World View Built From Layers

The best way to understand Anindya World View is to think of it not as a single map but as a collection of layers around one geographical frame.

At different times, that frame can contain:

  • The Earth and terrain
  • Cities, roads and mapped sites
  • Aircraft
  • Maritime vessels
  • Weather
  • Earthquakes
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies
  • Space missions and orbital context
  • Regional events
  • Public radio stations
  • Supported public-camera context
  • User-created areas, lines and markers
  • AI-assisted interaction through Arka

Not every layer will contain information everywhere and not every provider has uniform global coverage.

That is not a flaw that should be concealed. It is an unavoidable characteristic of real-world open data.

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How I Recommend Exploring It

For someone visiting Anindya World View for the first time, there is no need to activate everything simultaneously.

A better approach is to begin with one question.

For example:

“What aircraft are around this region?”

Open Live Contacts, move towards the area and inspect available aircraft.

Then try:

“What is happening environmentally around this part of the world?”

Switch towards environmental information and examine earthquake or fire activity.

Or start with:

“What does maritime traffic around this coastline look like?”

Move towards the coast and examine available vessel contacts.

After becoming comfortable with the globe, experiment with space missions, radio, alternative visual styles, drawing tools and the cockpit interface.

Finally, try Arka Voice.

The system becomes much easier to understand once one stops thinking of it as a conventional webpage and starts treating it as an instrument panel for exploring the world.

What World View Should Not Be Used For

The visual appearance of World View can make public data look extraordinarily powerful. That makes limitations especially important.

Anindya World View should not be treated as:

  • An air-traffic-control system
  • A military intelligence system
  • A maritime navigation system
  • An emergency warning service
  • An authoritative disaster-response platform
  • A substitute for official aviation or marine notices
  • Evidence that an aircraft, ship, fire or event does not exist simply because it is not displayed

Open-source feeds can be delayed, incomplete, unavailable, filtered or limited by reception coverage. Aircraft may not transmit information visible to a particular network. Ships may disappear from AIS coverage. Satellite fire detection has physical and observational limitations. Weather models remain models rather than perfect descriptions of atmospheric conditions.

World View visualises available observations. It does not claim omniscience.

Why the Project Matters to Me

The most interesting thing about Anindya World View is not the fact that an aircraft moves across a 3D globe or that an earthquake marker can appear on a map.

It is the possibility of bringing different fragments of reality together.

Modern information is often abundant but disconnected. We know more about the world than at any earlier point in history, yet much of that knowledge arrives in separate feeds, separate applications and separate formats.

Geography gives those fragments a common language.

An aircraft has a position. A ship has a position. An earthquake has a position. A fire has a position. A city has a position. A weather system affects an area. A radio station originates somewhere. A space launch begins somewhere on Earth before moving beyond it.

Once these things are placed together, relationships become easier to see.

That is the central idea behind Anindya World View.

An Evolving Platform

The present implementation is not intended to be the final form of the project.

Anindya World View has been designed as an evolving platform. Additional public data sources, better contextual interpretation, improved Arka interaction, richer event intelligence and deeper relationships between different layers can be added without changing the fundamental concept.

The globe remains the foundation.

Everything else becomes another way of asking a simple question:

What can publicly available information tell us about this part of the world right now?

For readers of AnindyaNandi.com, researchers, travellers, map enthusiasts, aviation followers, maritime observers, technology enthusiasts or simply anyone curious about the planet, Anindya World View offers a different way to explore that question.

Not through a list.

Not through a feed.

But by looking at the world itself.

References

¹ Anindya World View, Live Application
Anindya World View
https://eye.anindyanandi.com/

² Anindya World View, AnindyaNandi.com Gateway
AnindyaNandi.com
https://anindyanandi.com/world/

³ The OpenSky Network API Documentation
The OpenSky Network
https://openskynetwork.github.io/opensky-api/

⁴ ADSB.lol
Public ADS-B aircraft tracking and data
https://adsb.lol/

⁵ AISStream
Real-time maritime AIS data
https://aisstream.io/

⁶ OpenStreetMap
Open geographical mapping data
https://www.openstreetmap.org/

⁷ Open-Meteo
Weather API and meteorological data
https://open-meteo.com/

⁸ United States Geological Survey, Earthquake Feeds and Web Services
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/

⁹ NASA FIRMS, Fire Information for Resource Management System
NASA Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth Observations
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

¹⁰ Radio Browser
Community-driven internet radio directory
https://www.radio-browser.info/