Wigle.net
This website lets you see an open sourced map of wifi networks and bluetooth devices in just about any part of the globe. With Wigle you can track wifi hotspots, see how common your wifi name is, and see the density of networks in an area, plus it just looks really cool.
Flightradar24.com
With this site you can track individual aircrafts, see all the planes in the sky, and a ton of other informatin like duration of thir flight, take off and landing times, airspeed and plenty more!
Thetruesize.com
This website us super useful, have you ever wonderd why greenland looks so big on maps? Or how many Colombias fit inside austraila, well this website is super easy to use you can just drag any country to anywhere on the globe and see how big it is at differnt latatudes.
This size difference happes FYI because the earth is a sphere, but most maps of the earth are flat, so there is a size distortion in the top and bottom of these maps.
IQair.com
Want to check on the air quality anywhere in the world? Well I’ve got you covered with this one, you can see wind patterns, different sizes of particulate matter, and just a gorgeous view of the earth.
Waze.com/live-map
You can see live traffic data from Waze anywhere on earth that Waze is used, and you don’t need to sign in.
Broadcastify.com
Have you wanted to be able to listen to public audio feeds from emergency services like rail, airline, EMS, police, and the fire department live online? Well, I have some good news, you can digitally join in to basically anywhere in the USA.
Shademap.app
This tool is very cool, you can look just about anywhere in the world at how much sunlight a building gets and from which direction it comes from, you can easily dial in the time of day, and it’s just simple cool, and very useful for solar panel projects and the like.
Visdeurbel.nl
This one gives me hope for humanity, it’s a livestream fish doorbell, if you see a fish go past, then you click the doorbell, and if enough people see a fish they open a lock and let the fish through. It’s an adorable project, and the website even shows a little history and some of the fish species you might see. The doorbell is in Utrecht in the Netherlands.Â
Mewho.com
Totally awesome, this is a bunch of amazing Star Trek dashboards with all different styles and even sound effects, it’s absolutely one of the coolest things I’ve seen, and it all runs in your browser.