Webcams & radioLive
Radio Garden
Spin a globe and listen to live radio stations anywhere on Earth
radio.gardenOpen
Ancient Earth Globe alternatives
Ancient Earth Globe: see where your town was on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Here are 31 other maps that do a similar job, 30 of them completely free.
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Free alternatives to Ancient Earth Globe
Curiosities
The True Size Of
Drag countries around the map to see their true size
thetruesize.comOpen
Transport
Chronotrains
How far can you get by train in five hours? Isochrone map of Europe
chronotrains.comOpen
Curiosities
City Roads
Draw every road in a city as a minimalist poster
anvaka.github.ioOpen
Transport
shipmap.org
Animated map of a year of global shipping movements
shipmap.orgOpen
Nature
River Runner
Follow a raindrop from anywhere to the sea
river-runner-global.samlearner.comOpen
Curiosities
Antipodes Map
Find the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth
antipodesmap.comOpen
CuriositiesLive
Day and Night World Map
Where it is day and night on Earth right now
timeanddate.comOpen
Transport
Great Circle Mapper
Draw great-circle flight routes between airports and measure distances
gcmap.comOpen
Population
Human Terrain
The world's population density drawn as 3D mountains
pudding.coolOpen
Curiosities
MapFight
Compare the size of any two countries or regions
mapfight.xyzOpen
Cities
SunCalc
Sun position, sunrise and sunset directions for any place and time
suncalc.orgOpen
All similar maps
Webcams & radioLive
Radio Garden
Spin a globe and listen to live radio stations anywhere on Earth
radio.gardenOpen
Curiosities
The True Size Of
Drag countries around the map to see their true size
thetruesize.comOpen
Transport
Chronotrains
How far can you get by train in five hours? Isochrone map of Europe
chronotrains.comOpen
Curiosities
City Roads
Draw every road in a city as a minimalist poster
anvaka.github.ioOpen
Transport
shipmap.org
Animated map of a year of global shipping movements
shipmap.orgOpen
Cities
ShadeMap
Simulate shadows from buildings, trees and terrain at any time
shademap.appOpen
Nature
River Runner
Follow a raindrop from anywhere to the sea
river-runner-global.samlearner.comOpen
Curiosities
Antipodes Map
Find the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth
antipodesmap.comOpen
CuriositiesLive
Day and Night World Map
Where it is day and night on Earth right now
timeanddate.comOpen
Transport
Great Circle Mapper
Draw great-circle flight routes between airports and measure distances
gcmap.comOpen
Population
Human Terrain
The world's population density drawn as 3D mountains
pudding.coolOpen
Curiosities
MapFight
Compare the size of any two countries or regions
mapfight.xyzOpen
Cities
SunCalc
Sun position, sunrise and sunset directions for any place and time
suncalc.orgOpen
CuriositiesLive
Time Zone Map
Interactive map of the world's time zones
timeanddate.comOpen
Satellite
Earth View from Google Earth
Thousands of striking satellite landscapes picked from Google Earth
earthview.withgoogle.comOpen
Curiosities
If It Were My Home
Compare life in your country with life anywhere else
ifitweremyhome.comOpen
Space
Map of the Universe
Scroll through a map of the observable universe, galaxy by galaxy
mapoftheuniverse.netOpen
Curiosities
Map Projection Transitions
Watch the world morph smoothly between dozens of map projections
jasondavies.comOpen
Population
Worldmapper
Cartograms that resize countries by population, wealth and more
worldmapper.orgOpen
History
Omnes Viae
A Roman route planner based on the Peutinger Map
omnesviae.orgOpen
Curiosities
MAPfrappe
Draw a shape on one map and see it at the same scale somewhere else
mapfrappe.comOpen
Hazards
Global Volcanism Program
The Smithsonian's map and database of the world's volcanoes and eruptions
volcano.si.eduOpen
Terrain
Macrostrat
Geologic map of the whole world, combining hundreds of maps
macrostrat.orgOpen
Outdoors
OpenTopoMap
Free topographic map of the world from OpenStreetMap and elevation data
opentopomap.orgOpen
Terrain
topographic-map.com
Free elevation and topographic maps for anywhere
en-us.topographic-map.comOpen
Hazards
VolcanoDiscovery
Volcano news, active volcano map and earthquake reports
volcanodiscovery.comOpen
Terrain
BGS Geology Viewer
Geology of Britain from the British Geological Survey
geologyviewer.bgs.ac.ukOpen
Terrain
OneGeology Portal
Geological maps from geological surveys around the world in one viewer
portal.onegeology.orgOpen
Terrain
USGS MapView
Browse every published geologic map of the United States
ngmdb.usgs.govOpen
Terrain
Flood Map (floodmap.net)
Elevation map that shows what floods at a given water level
floodmap.netOpen
Terrain
Mindat
The mineral database, with maps of where minerals are found
mindat.orgOpen