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24 alternatives to Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions

Interactive 3D globe visualizing seven years of EU shipping emissions data (2018–2024) from THETIS-MRV. 12,000+ vessels per year, filterable by ship type, flag state, and emissions metrics.

Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions is a visualization tool that displays shipping emissions data across European waters in an interactive three-dimensional format. It allows users to explore and understand… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!

    2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →

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    The Interactive 3D Encyclopedia

    Aug 2026 · expeditione.fun · its alternatives →

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    Globe wireframe visualizations in Golang. Contribute to mmcloughlin/globe development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    3D geographic visualization library. Contribute to w3reality/three-geo development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a real-time flight tracker that renders 10,000+ aircraft on an interactive 3D globe, entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.

    Apr 2026 · flight-viz.com · its alternatives →

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    OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…

    Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →

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    This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The concept for metiq.space came after playing Global Magnates with friends and realizing how fragmented live global data is. ships, aircraft, satellites, ports, weather, hazards, infrastructure, cyber, and public datasets all exist, but they usually live in separate tools and maps. The goal was to build one interactive 3D globe where live public data could be visualized by latitude, longitude, and altitude. Surface data stays on the globe, while aircraft, satellites, and other above surface things can be represented in actual 3D space instead of being flattened onto a map. The outcome is an…

    Jun 2026 · metiq.space · its alternatives →

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    An interactive data visualisation about Exoplanets by TK Vishal

    2019 · exoplanetexplore.now.sh · its alternatives →

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    I made a web app to generate 3D models of real places on earth from land cover and elevation data. Click anywhere on the map to get a polygon, and then click "generate". It should work at most scales, but if your watershed or region selection is too large, the result can be less exciting because it's so flat. As a warning, the 3D models can sometimes be too much for my phone. It's nicer on desktop. I'm still working better on mobile support. The land cover data I'm using gives a cool effect, but at some point I'd like to add in global imagery and clouds. The backend is a Python thread…

    2025 · topography.jessekv.com · its alternatives →

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    🌏 A Declarative 3D Globe Data Visualization Library built with Three.js - syt123450/giojs

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gio.js▲77

    3D globe info visualization library built with Three.js

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A framework for 3D geospatial visualization in the browser - UDST/vizicities

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions. The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!

    2024 · docs.visprex.com · its alternatives →

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    Features include: - Several preset periodic orbits: the classic Figure-8, plus newly discovered 3D solutions from Li and Liao's recent database of 10,000+ orbits (https://arxiv.org/html/2508.08568v1) - Full 3D camera controls (rotate/pan/zoom) with body-following mode - Force and velocity vector visualization - Timeline scrubbing to explore the full orbital period The 3D presets are particularly interesting. Try "O₂(1.2)" or "Piano O₆(0.6)" from the Load Presets menu to see configurations where bodies weave in and out of the orbital plane. Most browser…

    Nov 2025 · trisolarchaos.com · its alternatives →

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    Measure carbon emissions with an API

    2020 · carboninterface.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), running design calculations against EN 13201 / ANSI/IES RP-8 / CJJ 45 / IES-IDA MLO, and (the part I most want to show off here) rendering real urban scenes in Bevy with the photometric data driving actual streetlight behavior, including sky-glow contribution. The Skyglow Analysis demo loads a real LDT file into a Bevy scene (Khronos Bistro test asset). The luminaire's intensity distribution…

    May 2026 · iesna.eu · its alternatives →

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    This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…

    2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    A fun way to visualise the flow of you traffic.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Calculate, visualize and integrate CO₂ emissions from travel

    2022 · travelco2.com · its alternatives →

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    Last weekend, I tried creating an original visualization of something on many minds in my home country the Netherlands: land use. Much of our discussion revolves around land use—housing crisis, sustainable farming, solar energy—it's all about the land. To illustrate this, I created a map where each hexagon represents 0.06% (26,647 hectares) of land in the Netherlands. The color indicates the type of land use.

    2024 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →

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    Topological visualizations for the masses

    2020 · topovis.iambeef.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2013 · bl.ocks.org · its alternatives →

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