Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
HERE CAM: A Globe With a Memory
An interactive 3D globe for exploring places, environmental activity, and changes described as reaching back to 1985.
- For
- Readers exploring environmental and geographic change
- Worth noticing
- The interface combines historical change since 1985 with USGS earthquakes and NASA active-fire data.
Field notes
The interface organizes a 3D globe around place cards, visual presets, and environmental layers, including warming, forest change, emitters, earthquakes, and active fires. Its onboarding copy frames the globe as a way to inspect what changed since 1985, while a separate provider-settings panel distinguishes browser services such as Google Maps and Cesium ion from server-side keys. The supplied extract still shows an initializing state, so the full data experience warrants a follow-up check.
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