Theme

Strategic

Where the world's critical infrastructure is, who commands what, and — just as important — what a map built on public data cannot see. Open sources only. Every site sourced, dated, and marked with how precisely we actually know where it is.

Live · globe + ADS-B

Vantage

The world's strategic infrastructure, mapped

Nuclear reactors, power stations, major dams, air and naval bases, missile launch facilities, radars, spaceports, refineries, semiconductor fabs and maritime chokepoints — nearly 10,000 sites on a zoomable globe. Plus live military ADS-B, and a plain statement of the blind spots.

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Free · no key, no quota

Vantage data API

The whole dataset as plain JSON

No API key, no rate limit, no sign-up. The data files sit on a CDN and you can fetch them straight from a browser. Licences are stated per file, because they genuinely differ.

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New · 178 entries, both languages

Order of Battle · 战斗序列

How the Chinese and US forces are organised

Every command, service, theatre and fleet — what each is responsible for, what it specialises in, who it reports to, and how the structure has changed. Find out how big a brigade actually is, watch one unit report to two different bosses at once, and drag a year to see seven Chinese military regions dissolve into five theatre commands.

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What this theme is, and is not

These tools are reference works. They document what a place is and does, and how forces are organised. They are compiled entirely from open sources — government open data, CC0 and CC BY research databases, public registers, and open community sensor networks.

They carry no targeting material of any kind: no aimpoints, no vulnerability or hardening assessment, no weapon-to-target reasoning, no strike planning — and nothing about private individuals. That line is deliberate and it decides what gets published here.

They also state their own limits out loud. Ships switch AIS off at will; military aircraft transmit at their discretion; receiver coverage is dense over Europe and North America and thin everywhere else. Absence of a track is not absence of a flight.