Places, views and replay
Where to point the map, how to keep a view you like, and how to look at the recent past.
#/places
The sidebar in the top-left corner. Three tabs:
Regions — nine standing views: Global, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Arctic. Click one and the map frames the whole area.
Conflicts — nine current hotspots, ranked by intensity, with the name itself carrying the severity: Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan as critical, then Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, the Sahel, DR Congo and Haiti. Click to fly there.
This list is not the same as the map's Conflict Zones layer, which draws 13 areas including the standing tensions (the Taiwan Strait, the Korean DMZ, the Red Sea). One is where to point the map; the other is what to draw on it.
Saved — your own bookmarked views. Name the current view, hit the crosshair, and it is saved with its position and zoom. Fly back to it or delete it at any time.
Conflict and saved rows carry an AI summary action on hover: a short brief on that region, compiled from current sources with the sources listed under it. Each brief costs one AI query from your monthly allowance and needs an account. The brief is generated — treat it as a lead, verify it independently, which is what the line under every brief says.
#Layer presets
/view carries preset chips that set the whole layer selection at once, rather than adding to it:
| Preset | Turns on |
|---|---|
| war | Air alerts, conflict zones, front line, global incidents, active and major fires, nuclear facilities, military aircraft and military ships |
| sea | Ports & chokepoints, military ships, tankers, cargo |
| air | Commercial, private and military flights, private jets, military and navigation satellites |
| cyber | GPS jamming, nuclear facilities |
| all / clear | Everything on, everything off |
#Sharing a view
The share control turns the current view — position, zoom and the layers you have on — into a link. Whoever opens it sees the same framing of the live map, not a screenshot: the data is whatever is live when they open it.
#Region profiles
Selecting a country or region opens a Region Profile: the standing facts (country, capital, population, languages, area, head of state) alongside an intelligence brief compiled from current reporting.
Region profiles work without an account. The AI brief inside one does not.
#Replay
The map keeps a rolling seven-day archive of every ingested feed. The history control opens a scrubber over that window: drag to a moment, or press play and watch it advance in ten-minute steps.
This answers "what did this area look like on Tuesday afternoon", which is a different question from the one the live map answers, and often the more useful one after an event.
Replay is on paid plans. It is the one map surface that is not free, and the reason is that it is not live data: it is seven days of every feed, stored at our expense. Nothing older than seven days is kept.
#What a guest can see
Without an account: the whole live map, every layer, region profiles, search and fly-to, and the shared-view links.
Two limits apply to guests. The map stops zooming at zoom level 10 — close enough to read a city, not a street — and nothing is remembered between visits. Both are lifted by a free account.