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These kind of world maps with 'live' data are some of the coolest things in the modern internet. This kind of electricity map, windy.com the weather site and other sites linked when that came up on HN yesterday[1], https://www.lightningmaps.org/ and https://www.flightradar24.com/ and https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Is there a collection like an "awesome maps" list anywhere?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37187760




I fucking love maps.

Open Infra Map; shows major electrical lines, power plants, gas & oil lines, and telecom/data centers. Gets its data from Open Street Map: https://openinframap.org/

Open Railway Map; shows railroad lines. Also gets its data from OSM: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

Also Sentinel Hub has satellite imagery that although it has less resolution than ie Google Maps, it is updated daily: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/


For railways, there is a genre of "track diagrams" which are more like circuit diagrams for the railway, showing lines, crossovers, platforms, etc. The best ones for the UK are perhaps the Quail maps, which include all sorts of gory details, but are commercial:

https://www.trackmaps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Book5...

There are some pretty good open ones though:

https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/index.php?st...


Open Infra Map is just the kind of thing I was hoping for! I'm interested/surprised at how many megawatt batteries there are in the UK, and how many 10MW+ solar farms and at all the names of the offshore wind farms and where they connect back to.


> Open Infra Map

Wow. London is surprisingly neat compared to a place like Paris.



Here’s one for tracking satellites and debris: http://astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/



True, unfortunately lightning maps doesn't seem to be accurate - at least I had 0 luck with it.

On the other hands flightradar24 and similar are so fascinating if you are on a busy plane route. The observation time is so perfect to speculate over the plane and destinations, chat about interesting facts or recent developments at destinations.

A few years ago I visited a small village where a relative of mine lives and happen to show a kid the app. Next year, I heard that the all the kids there made it a hobby to do plane spotting.


> These kind of world maps with 'live' data

I agree. And I'm glad you put quotes around live. Much of the data for the US is estimated, not actually sourced from the grid operator. It'll be great when we have realtime data everywhere.


This thread already contains many candidates for the awesome map list! We just need a hero.


I DuckDuckWent it and it looks like there's a few heroes already:

- https://github.com/drushadrusha/awesome-maps

- https://github.com/thedoubler/awesome-maps-data




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