Show HN:Odd Orbit, live 3D globe of quakes, weather, satellites and UFO reports (oddorbit.app)

7 points by oddorbitapp 3 days ago

I made a site that put alot of odd layers on a 3d interactive globe, all the neat google earth light night spooky or interesting things id want just on one earth to see all together. For example ufo reports, cryptid reports, sea floor map, earth flood scaling, haunted places, weather and tornado forecasting, sea temps, satelite tracking, etc. Id like to know what you all think and maybe what i could add or remove?

ivanvanderbyl 3 days ago
Why is it in Fahrenheit with no obvious way to change it? Only 5 countries use F unit of measurement. It should default to Celsius or at least the prominent units of your current location.
- oddorbitapp 1 day ago
  Lol
luis_cho 3 days ago
Funny that aliens only visit USA Uk and Germany.
- oddorbitapp 3 days ago
  Maybe they just like the food, but we pull from sources that only show reports from these countries right now which is why it looks that way. In the future people will be able to submit their own reports and pindrops on the map!
- flowerbreeze 2 days ago
  The data sources listed for UFOs are from US and Germany:
  National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) witness reports (US, via the CC0 TidyTuesday project, 2023-06-20)
  and
  GEP e.V. UFO/UAP Falldaten (Germany, Zenodo 18071015, CDLA-Permissive-1.0), 1925–2025.
  They are unlikely to include data from many other locations.