Here Above
Here Above
The planes, ships and satellites over you, live, on a globe you can fly through.
Open it and the sky fills in: every flight overhead labelled with its callsign, height and speed. Tap one to follow it.
2.5 km
Every flight, where it really is
Positions stream in from ADS-B receivers every few seconds. Aircraft sit on the runway, climb out and turn over the city just as they do outside your window.
Tap a plane for its airline, aircraft type, route and a photo of the airframe.
3.7 km
See it from the window seat
Tap a flight and take the seat by the window. The wing and engine hang outside while the city slides past below, exactly where that plane is right now.
Ships are there too: follow vessels in and out of the harbour from their AIS broadcasts.
9 km
The ground, in three dimensions
Mountains, valleys and city blocks are real terrain and photographed scenery. The sun sits where it sits for you right now, so evening looks like evening.
407 km
Today's clouds, not a stock photo
Cloud cover comes from NOAA weather satellites and refreshes every fifteen minutes. Pull back to the height of the space station and watch the weather move across the planet.
20,000 km
Satellites, and the shadows they cast
Hundreds of satellites trace their orbits around the globe, each placed from its published orbital elements.
Solar eclipses are plotted ahead of time. Scrub through one and watch the Moon's shadow cross the Earth.
384,400 km
Past the Moon, on to Mars
Keep pulling back and Earth becomes one world among several. Fly to the Moon or Mars and turn them in your hand.
1.4 billion km
The whole solar system
Jupiter's storms, Saturn's rings, and every planet on the orbit it is travelling today. Step back far enough and you can see all of them circling the Sun.
Made by the people who watch the sky
Everything in Here Above comes from people who share what they see.
- Aircraft come from ADSB.lol, fed by volunteers running receivers on their roofs and balconies.
- Ships come from AIS broadcasts relayed by volunteer receivers and coastal authorities.
- Planets, moons, eclipses and aircraft models live in an open repository on GitHub. Anyone can add one with a pull request, and preview it in the app before it is merged.
- Maps are drawn from OpenStreetMap, built by millions of mappers.
No account. No ads. No tracking.
Your exact location never leaves your phone. The app asks for the area you are looking at, not where you are standing, and there is nothing to sign up for.