Monitoring the World like the Illusive Man - Using Global Situation World Monitors

Recently I've been seeing posts about "this person JUST created a world monitor", as if it was simply due to the wars or something as of late... No. OSINT is a category of tools that have been around for a long time, and there have been at least half a dozen world monitors out there. There are also a few other similar ones like GeoSentinel too.

I collected them all for myself, and while I'm not sure if I should make this post or not. Since they seem to be getting pretty popular, I thought I might as well list out the ones I've found, and hopefully it will help you stay informed.

There seems to be a lot of similar needs, from RSS feeds, APIs, and having a strong map module. After encountering these I actually tried to vibe code my own as an obsidian template, and then eventually just as a locally hosted app. That way I could pull the best parts from each of them.

World Monitors

OSINT is a range of tools to help with information gathering, and understanding what is going on around you. It can range from hacking to intelligence, and today we are looking at the variety of World Monitor tools. These first three I would consider to be the main ones. I share more in this post.

Situation Mo nitor

Situation Monitor

Real-time global situation monitoring dashboard

World Monitor

Alternate one:

SitDeck

GlobalThreatMap-Local

Global Threat Map | Intelligence Platform

Real-time global situational awareness platform for security events, geopolitical developments, and threat indicators

Intelligence Platform

World Pulse

https://github.com/Panos1221/WorldPulse

Data Dashboards

Sometimes you don't need all of the information that the ones above give you, and you simply need feeds or some sort of way of visualizing the data you have.

TheBigBrother

Global Threat Map

GeoSentinel

Resources

These are similar links, tools, videos, or resources that I felt deserved to be here. However they didn't quite fit into the above categories.

Gov Base

https://govbase.com/

He fails to share a link to this tool however.

https://intellibot.app/ - Currently down at the time of writing.

WireTapper

Other Resources:

OpenSky

Cesium: The Platform for 3D Geospatial

The Cesium platform provides the foundations any software application needs to utilize 3D geospatial data: visualization, data pipelines, curated data, and analytics. Based on open standards for data formats, open APIs for customization and integration, and built with an open source core, Cesium is open, interoperable, and incredibly precise.

Cesium

I even interviewed the creator of GeoSentinel:

No you're not the Illusive Man or ShadowBroker

I think it needs to be said that these are not making you into some overload/overwatch person. You need to actually know what to do with the data to be at that point.

The reason why you would want to use these type of tools is to be informed, and to receive information as soon as it becomes available.

Most RSS readers are actually pretty garbage, slow retrieval, unoptimized interfaces so the feeds are cluttered. Especially if you're tying to sort for news based, versus just simply your interests/hobbies, and so having a screen filled with feeds is useful for this different purpose.

Be Cautious and Do Good with the Information

These are pretty much all the links I've come across so far, and I tend to make these kinds of posts when I go down rabbit holes. Its not like you wouldn't have found these yourself, but at least I can save you some time.

If you came across a new one, then let me know.