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God’s Eye View Blew Up. Then Astra Showed Up.
#1 on GitHub, tracking historic cyclones, reconstructing a plane crash from air and ground, and also my parents living room.
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I knew you wanted the code. I didn’t think this would happen.
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Since I open sourced God’s Eye View, the repo hit #1 on GitHub Trending. Chris Messina, the creator of the Twitter hashtag, put it on Product Hunt. Then Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript -- yes, the language I used to code the damn thing -- jumped into the conversation.
And so many of you have been installing it, making videos, and building on top of it. I’m honestly overwhelmed by the support. Thank you.
The repo is now at roughly 38,200 stars and 7,700 forks.
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But the same two questions keep coming up: how do I run the damn thing if I’m not a coder, and can you give me a proper walkthrough?
So I made a 30 minute deep dive, which has astoundingly crossed 2.3 million views in a week. Check it out below:
Are you already set up? Jump straight to the walkthrough (2:08), voice control (7:47), camera tours (19:55), or the Nepal flood reconstruction (24:18).
Get a feel for it
We are building the window through which we see the world - an audit trail for physical reality ready for you to inspect.
For the open source version that means pulling together the most generous data providers to give you a remarkably complete picture of what’s happening on the planet at any given moment. With it you can:
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Look at all those vessels. The coverage in Europe and the US is remarkably dense.
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A landing from the perspective of DAL 3146. And while I did this the voice AI informed me that Delta actually started as a crop dusting company (TIL!)
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