Data sources and credits
Last updated 20 October 2026
Everything on CyberSignal comes from public, open sources. Here is each one, what it provides, its licence, and the credit it asks for. CyberSignal itself — its software and design — is owned by Freeroam LLC; the data belongs to these sources.
Aircraft
Positions come from volunteers’ ADS-B receivers, so coverage follows where those receivers are: dense over North America and Europe, thin over oceans, Africa and much of Asia. Between reports each aircraft is carried along its own reported course and speed.
Live aircraft positions worldwide, aircraft type, and the positions behind a followed flight’s trail
Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
Aircraft data © adsb.lol contributors, ODbL 1.0
Flight routes (origin and destination) by callsign, and airports
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Space, earth and hazards
Satellite orbital elements, propagated in your browser
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Orbital data: SatNOGS DB, Libre Space Foundation — CC BY-SA 4.0
Earthquakes worldwide
Licence: U.S. public domain
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Earthquakes worldwide from national networks, including small quakes across Europe, the Mediterranean, Latin America and Asia; merged with USGS so each quake is one marker
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Credit: EMSC-CSEM SeismicPortal, www.seismicportal.eu — CC BY 4.0
Conflict and unrest in world news over the last 24 hours (armed clashes, airstrikes, bombings, riots), machine-coded from news coverage, with links to the original reports. Locations are estimates.
Licence: Free for any use, including commercial, with citation (gdeltproject.org/about.html)
Event data: The GDELT Project
Natural events: wildfires, storms, volcanoes, with a link to each event’s source
Licence: U.S. public domain
Natural events: NASA EONET. For visualisation and general information only; event locations are not official extents.
Public cameras
Official feeds published by transport authorities, credited on every camera. Still images are passed through our server so the agencies do not see visitors’ IP addresses; live video plays from the agency directly.
California highway cameras: live video and stills
Licence: Public domain (Caltrans conditions of use)
Caltrans — cwwp2.dot.ca.gov
Iowa highway cameras: live video and stills
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Iowa Department of Transportation — CC BY 4.0
Crashes on Los Angeles roads, from CHP incident logs; only those blocking lanes or closing a road are shown
Licence: Caltrans conditions of use (public domain)
Information courtesy of CHP. Data published by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
News
The day’s world news on Today on Earth: each item is adapted from the portal and links the news report it cites
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
News summaries adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal, by its editors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: source brackets moved to links; items grouped into sections. Story locations from Wikipedia article coordinates.
Coastlines for the small locator maps on Today on Earth
Licence: Public domain
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
Cyber
Software flaws confirmed to be under active attack, on the Cyber page and in the Daily Brief
Licence: US government work, public domain
Source: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Vulnerability details link to the NIST National Vulnerability Database.
Licence-plate readers
Mapped locations only, as recorded by volunteers in OpenStreetMap: no plate data, no video, and no guarantee a camera is still there.
Hourly map of US and Canadian plate-reader locations
Licence: OpenStreetMap data, ODbL
ALPR locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), tiles by DeFlock
Plate-reader locations in the rest of the world, refreshed daily
Licence: ODbL
Maps
Worldwide satellite imagery
Licence: U.S. public domain
Imagery: NASA Blue Marble via GIBS
Aerial imagery of the United States
Licence: U.S. public domain
US imagery: USGS The National Map
Roads, buildings, borders, place names and map lettering
Licence: ODbL — © OpenStreetMap contributors
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles Data from OpenStreetMap
Elevation for 3D terrain
Licence: Open licences of each underlying dataset
Terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles via AWS Open Data — 3DEP, SRTM, GMTED2010 © USGS; ETOPO1 © NOAA; EU-DEM © Copernicus; © Geoscience Australia CC BY 4.0; Kartverket CC BY 4.0; LINZ CC BY 3.0 NZ; and others.
3D models
The aircraft and ship models in Free Fly are by these creators, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and have been modified (optimised for the web).
- “boeing 747” by zairiq-123, sketchfab.com/3d-models/boeing-747-9b16672038ba48f98e6d80a159044ed9, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “Private Jet” by bacelM, sketchfab.com/3d-models/private-jet-cbdd1de6ced9461e950eafaa302cc82b, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “Low Poly Cargo Ship” by Javier_Fernandez, sketchfab.com/3d-models/low-poly-cargo-ship-4c22cbaf01c1427f8ab60b3a07b1b32c, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “Bell 206 JetRanger” by terran4627, sketchfab.com/3d-models/bell-206-jetranger-d2f7ba1d671549d4b26aaf834139a1dd, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “Cessna 172” by Nobilis the Palaeovespa, sketchfab.com/3d-models/cessna-172-64cddaee5aff470682659a8c08525046, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “1990 Cessna Citation, Texture Detailed, Exterior” by BlenderCommunityHead, sketchfab.com/3d-models/1990-cessna-citation-texture-detailed-exterior-a78839624fe64900a8352cb23462350a, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “MQ-9” by IProZenoN, sketchfab.com/3d-models/mq-9-fabe963feb354c5584b51f9c470c3f7e, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “Boeing 787-9” by Nobilis 2, sketchfab.com/3d-models/boeing-787-9-b6711e2e698e4e469675c1154a50b7a3, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
- “ATR 72 - 600” by Sofyan Kurniawan, sketchfab.com/3d-models/atr-72-600-1e1a7186f7444d288675262fcee44744, CC BY 4.0. Optimised for the web (God's Eye View).
Open-source software
Parts of CyberSignal adapt code from these MIT-licensed projects:
- God's Eye View — Copyright (c) 2026 Bilawal Sidhu
- OSIRIS — Copyright (c) 2026 simplifaisoul
- skylight — Copyright (c) 2026 cpaczek
MIT License text
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.