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poopdeck.gl
Navigation & observation

poopdeck.gl

Time-aware deck.gl layers and a tile format for streaming animated geospatial data — built for things that move: ships, drifters, cars, and anything with a trace.

Ocean current drifters
Demos

Ocean Currents

Surface-buoy drift tracks, shaded by sea-surface temperature. Source: NOAA Global Drifter Program.

NOAA

Storm as a 4D Object — Greenfield EF4

One supercell rendered as a true four-dimensional object: the Greenfield, Iowa EF4 of 21 May 2024. NEXRAD Level II radar gates from KDMX stacked by beam altitude into a time-animated 3D volume — toggle between NWS reflectivity and dealiased radial velocity to read the mesocyclone couplet — with VTEC warning polygons rising as translucent prisms, the GOES cloud-top anvil canopy lifted to its brightness-temperature height, multi-level HRRR winds threading the volume, county power outages growing behind the storm, surface stations gusting, storm reports, GLM lightning, and the 18Z Omaha radiosonde climbing through the scene. Sources: NOAA NEXRAD / GOES / HRRR, NWS via IEM, SPC, DOE EAGLE-I.

NOAA

World Model Scenario Explorer

300 NVIDIA Cosmos-Drive-Dreams driving scenarios laid side by side on one synthetic grid, every agent in every world animating at once on a shared clock. Click a world to fly in and watch the Cosmos-generated video of it play in sync with its own vector geometry. Explorer at /worlds.

Argoverse 2 · Pittsburgh

Real Argoverse 2 sensor log, Pittsburgh: 64-beam LIDAR, tracked-object 3D boxes, ego trajectory, HD-map substrate (lane boundaries + centerlines, drivable areas, crosswalks), a ring-camera inset, and ego-derived telemetry (AV2 ships no CAN bus).

NYC Yellow Cab Trips

Animated yellow-cab trip lines across Manhattan. Source: NYC TLC.

NYC TLC

OSM Editing — NYC

OpenStreetMap node creations in New York City, coloured by year. © OpenStreetMap contributors.

OpenStreetMap