Web maps have become part of everyday life, from the most used service – Google Maps – to some amazing projects you may never have seen or heard of. Some of them are below:
Flightradar24
Flightradar24 is a flight-tracking service that provides real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world. It is designed to show the most useful information possible to help you plan your trip or track someone you are waiting for.
MarineTraffic.com
MarineTraffic is a ship-tracking service that provides real-time position information for vessels and yachts around the world. The app covers the main ports and shipping routes. MarineTraffic maintains a database of real-time and historical positions through its network of land stations and satellite data.
Zoom.Earth
With Zoom Earth you can view GOES imagery and monitor global weather in real time. Track hurricanes, tropical storms, weather, wildfire smoke and much more. Watch LIVE satellite imagery with the latest available weather radar. Explore beautiful interactive maps for rainfall, snow, wind speed, temperature, humidity and pressure forecasts.
Example: https://zoom.earth/#view=-20.8,-52.1,5z/date=2022-11-28,14:50,-5/map=live/overlays=fires
Windy.com
Ventusky.com
The web application Ventusky was developed by InMeteo in collaboration with Marek Mojzík and Martin Prantl. It is a meteorological company from the Czech Republic that focuses on weather forecasting and meteorological data visualization. With deep experience presenting weather data on the In-počasí portal, founded in 2006, they built this high-quality application to display weather data from around the world and monitor climate development anywhere on Earth.
The Earth Wind Map
O Earth Wind Map is a project that provides a visualization of global weather conditions on a globe styled like Google Earth, with an emphasis on surface and altitude winds. Weather reports are generated by supercomputers and updated every three hours.
The estimated ocean surface is updated every five days. The ocean surface temperatures and daily average anomalies (1981-2011) are updated daily.
Estimates of ocean waves are updated every three hours.
