Atlas
Interactive maps of the whole planet, built on free public data — USGS, NOAA, the Smithsonian, UNESCO and national agencies from Europe to Australia — stitched together into experiences that don't exist in one place anywhere else. Each card says how far its data reaches, and every layer says where it came from.
01 Live maps
Earth Alive
WorldwideEarthquakes worldwide as USGS reports them, live — with the world's volcanoes and faults, and 4,000 years of great quakes and tsunamis.
USGS · Smithsonian GVP · NOAA NCEI · GEM faults · PB2002
Disaster Atlas
World feeds · U.S. detailCyclones, satellite fire detections and disaster alerts worldwide, with U.S. warnings, wildfires, tornadoes and floods in depth.
GDACS · NASA FIRMS · IBTrACS · NOAA / NWS · NIFC · FEMA
Strange Earth
WorldwideEvery confirmed impact crater, 4,000 strange places in 120 countries, and the bedrock under any spot on Earth.
Earth Impact Database · Wikidata · Macrostrat · Geoscience Australia · UNESCO
Hidden Earth
U.S. & EuropeSee beneath the tree canopy with lidar, from ancient earthworks to hidden faults — across the U.S. and much of Europe.
USGS 3DEP lidar · Environment Agency · AHN · IGN · swisstopo · Kartverket
Underground World
WorldwideCaves and karst on every continent — 13,000+ mapped caves, the world karst map, and 3D dives below the surface.
WHYMAP WOKAM · Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · UNESCO · USGS karst map
Prehistoric Earth
Worldwide278,000 fossil sites on every continent, dinosaur country, and a time machine back 540 million years to the seas and continents they lived in.
Paleobiology Database · PALEOMAP · GPlates · UNESCO · National Park Service
Lost Mines
Worldwide · U.S. detail304,000 mines in 165 countries, from Potosí's silver mountain to the gold rushes — plus the shafts and adits on the old U.S. topo maps.
USGS MRDS · UNESCO · USMIN · MSHA
Ghost Towns
Worldwide · U.S. detail8,500 ghost towns and abandoned villages in 99 countries, 10,700 vanished U.S. places, and towns lost beneath reservoirs.
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · USGS GNIS · UNESCO · English Heritage
Shipwrecks
Worldwide79,000 charted wrecks worldwide, 7,400 historic wrecks around Australia and New Zealand, and 30,000 named ships — Titanic to the Batavia.
NOAA charts · UK Hydrographic Office · Australasian UCH Database · Wikidata
02 On the drawing board
Forgotten Infrastructure
Old rail corridors, historic bridges and disused canals over modern imagery.
National Bridge Inventory · Historical topo maps
America Through Time
Battles, forts, railways and borders rebuilt on a timeline.
Historical boundaries · NPS