GPS Serial

📡 GPS Live Dashboard

Real-time situational awareness — aircraft, ships, trains, satellites and location sharing in one map.

What's on the map

✈️ Aircraft
Live ADS-B positions, altitude, speed, squawk, flight ID. Colour by altitude band.

🚢 Ships
AIS vessel tracking — cargo, tankers, ferries, pleasure craft. Tap for MMSI, destination, speed.

🚌 Buses
UK GTFS-RT live bus positions. Updates every refresh cycle.

🚆 Trains
UK rail — live running positions interpolated from Real Time Trains API with bearing.

🛰️ Satellites
TLE orbital data — ISS and tracked objects. Positions computed in-browser.

🎈 Radiosondes
Weather balloon positions from the global sonde network.

Action bar

⊙ Centre — snap map to your GPS location · 📍 Pin — drop a named pin at your position · 🧭 Point — compass HUD overlay · ⚡ Connect — start a location-sharing session (generates a 6-char code) · ⬡ Share — share your current session link · ⛶ — fullscreen

More tray

⏺ Track — record your GPS path locally · 🗺 Layers — switch map tiles (satellite, terrain, dark…) · ⬇ Export — download your track as GPX · 📋 NMEA — raw NMEA sentence stream · ⚡ Serial — connect a USB/Bluetooth GPS via Web Serial · 📱 Phone GPS — slave this screen to your phone's GPS using a session code · ⬡ Aware — situational awareness panel (aircraft nearest you, ships, ISS pass times)

Location sharing

Tap ⚡ Connect to create a session. Share the 6-char code with others — they join on the Phone app or another dashboard and you all see each other's live positions, can drop pins, and chat. The session is anonymous and ephemeral.

Part of a series of maps

This dashboard sits alongside two companion maps — 💛 World Kindness Map (702 acts of kindness across 500,000 years) and 🍜 World Food Map (605 markers, animated food migration routes). All three are linked at the bottom of the screen.

Built on Better Than HTML · Cloudflare Workers · Leaflet.js · ADS-B Exchange · AIS data · RTT API