World Monitor (Full Variant)

Geopolitical intelligence dashboard with military tracking, conflict monitoring, and infrastructure analysis

Overview

World Monitor is the flagship variant focused on real-time global intelligence and geopolitical situation awareness. It aggregates data from 150+ sources to provide a unified view of conflicts, military activity, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and natural disasters.

Live Demo: worldmonitor.app

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Key Features

World Monitor includes all core intelligence modules:

Geopolitical Intelligence

• Active conflict zones with escalation tracking (UCDP + ACLED)
• Intelligence hotspots with news correlation
• Social unrest events (ACLED protests + GDELT geo-events, Haversine-deduplicated)
• Natural disasters from 3 sources (USGS earthquakes M4.5+, GDACS alerts, NASA EONET)
• Sanctions regimes and trade restrictions
• Cyber threat IOCs (C2 servers, malware hosts, phishing URLs) geo-located on the globe
• GPS/GNSS jamming zones from ADS-B transponder analysis (H3 hex grid)

Military & Strategic

• 220+ military bases from 9 operators (US, Russia, China, NATO, France, UK, India, Israel, Iran)
• Live military flight tracking (ADS-B with OpenSky data)
• Naval vessel monitoring (AIS with chokepoint detection)
• Nuclear facilities & gamma irradiators (IAEA data)
• APT cyber threat actor attribution
• Spaceports & launch facilities
• Strategic theater posture assessment for 9 regions (Iran/Persian Gulf, Taiwan Strait, Baltic, Korean Peninsula, etc.)

Infrastructure Monitoring

• Undersea cables with landing points, cable health advisories (NGA navigational warnings), and cable repair ship tracking
• Oil & gas pipelines with corridor mapping
• AI datacenters (111 major clusters worldwide)
• 83 strategic ports across 6 types (container, oil, LNG, naval, mixed, bulk) with throughput rankings
• Internet outages (Cloudflare Radar API)
• Critical mineral deposits (lithium, cobalt, rare earths)
• NASA FIRMS satellite fire detection (VIIRS thermal hotspots)
• 19 global trade routes (container, energy, bulk) with multi-segment arcs through strategic chokepoints
• Airport delays and closures across 128 monitored airports (FAA + AviationStack + ICAO NOTAM)

AI-Powered Analysis

• World Brief — LLM-synthesized summary of top global developments (Ollama → Groq → OpenRouter → browser T5 fallback chain)
• Country Instability Index (CII) — real-time stability scores for every country with incoming data (23 curated tier-1 nations + universal scoring for all others)
• Focal Point Detection — correlates entities across news, military activity, protests, outages, and markets to identify convergence zones
• Trending Keyword Spike Detection — 2-hour rolling window vs 7-day baseline flags surging terms across RSS feeds
• Strategic Posture Assessment — composite risk score combining all intelligence modules

Live News & Video

• 150+ RSS feeds across geopolitics, defense, energy, government, and think tanks
• 8+ default live video streams (Bloomberg, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Euronews, DW, France24, CNBC, Al Arabiya) with automatic live detection
• 22 live webcams from geopolitical hotspots (Iran/Attacks, Middle East, Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific)
• Custom keyword monitors with word-boundary matching and real-time match counts

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Variant-Specific Configuration

Build Command

Development

npm run dev
# or explicitly:
npm run dev:full

Production Build

npm run build:full

Desktop App

npm run desktop:build:full

Metadata (vite.config.ts:52-76)

full: {
  title: 'World Monitor - Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard',
  description: 'Real-time global intelligence dashboard with live news, markets, military tracking, infrastructure monitoring, and geopolitical data. OSINT in one view.',
  keywords: 'global intelligence, geopolitical dashboard, world news, market data, military bases, nuclear facilities, undersea cables, conflict zones, real-time monitoring, situation awareness, OSINT, flight tracking, AIS ships, earthquake monitor, protest tracker, power outages, oil prices, government spending, polymarket predictions',
  url: 'https://worldmonitor.app/',
  siteName: 'World Monitor',
  shortName: 'WorldMonitor',
  subject: 'Real-Time Global Intelligence and Situation Awareness',
  classification: 'Intelligence Dashboard, OSINT Tool, News Aggregator',
  categories: ['news', 'productivity'],
  features: [
    'Real-time news aggregation',
    'Stock market tracking',
    'Military flight monitoring',
    'Ship AIS tracking',
    'Earthquake alerts',
    'Protest tracking',
    'Power outage monitoring',
    'Oil price analytics',
    'Government spending data',
    'Prediction markets',
    'Infrastructure monitoring',
    'Geopolitical intelligence',
  ],
}

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Data Sources

World Monitor aggregates data from 60+ authoritative sources:

News Feeds (150+)

Geopolitical (40+ sources)

• BBC, The Guardian, NPR, Al Jazeera, CNN, Reuters
• Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Defense One, Breaking Defense
• Bellingcat, War on the Rocks, CFR, CSIS, Brookings
• Regional: France24, DW, Kyiv Independent, SCMP, The Hindu

Defense & Security (20+ sources)

• Defense News, Military Times, Task & Purpose, USNI News
• DoD, State Dept, White House, DHS, CISA
• Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, NATO

Economic & Energy (15+ sources)

• CNBC, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance
• Federal Reserve, SEC, Treasury, EIA
• OPEC, IEA, World Bank, IMF

Think Tanks (10+ sources)

• RUSI, Chatham House, ECFR, Atlantic Council
• Stimson Center, Carnegie Endowment, RAND
• Crisis Group, Arms Control Association

Real-Time Data APIs

Source	Data Type	Update Frequency
OpenSky Network	Military flights (ADS-B)	10 seconds
AISStream	Naval vessels (AIS)	Real-time WebSocket
USGS	Earthquakes M4.5+	5 minutes
ACLED	Conflicts & protests	Daily
GDELT	Geo-events	15 minutes
Cloudflare Radar	Internet outages	Hourly
NASA FIRMS	Satellite fire detection	3 hours
UCDP	Armed conflict zones	Weekly
Polymarket	Prediction markets	2 minutes
OREF	Israeli rocket alerts	Near real-time

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Map Layers

World Monitor enables the following map overlays:

Conflicts

UCDP armed conflict zones + ACLED conflict events

Protests

ACLED protests + GDELT demonstrations (deduplicated)

Military Bases

220+ bases from 9 operators with facility metadata

Nuclear Facilities

IAEA nuclear reactors + gamma irradiators

Undersea Cables

Cable routes + landing points + health advisories

Pipelines

Oil & gas pipeline corridors worldwide

Military Flights

Live ADS-B tracking with enrichment metadata

Naval Vessels

AIS ship tracking + chokepoint detection

Earthquakes

USGS + GDACS + NASA EONET seismic events

Internet Outages

Cloudflare Radar annotations API

Datacenters

111 major AI/cloud datacenter clusters

Fires

NASA VIIRS thermal hotspot detection

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Use Cases

OSINT Analysts

• Multi-source correlation: Cross-reference news, military activity, and infrastructure events in one view
• Convergence detection: Identify when multiple signal types (protests + military + outages) co-occur in the same region
• Temporal baselines: Z-score anomaly detection flags deviations from 90-day historical norms

Security Teams

• Threat intelligence: Cyber IOCs geo-located on the map with severity classification
• GPS jamming zones: H3 hex cells with >2% interference from ADS-B data
• Travel advisories: 4-government consensus (US, UK, Australia, NZ) with CII score floors

Researchers

• Country Brief Pages: Full-page intelligence dossiers with CII score, AI analysis, 7-day timeline, and infrastructure exposure
• Export capabilities: JSON, CSV, PNG image export for offline analysis
• Historical playback: IndexedDB snapshots with time slider for rewinding to past states

Investors

• Geopolitical risk scoring: CII index tracks instability across 250+ countries
• Market correlation: Prediction markets (Polymarket) linked to country briefs
• Infrastructure exposure: 600km radius search for pipelines, cables, datacenters, and ports

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Desktop vs. Web

Desktop App (Tauri)

Advantages:

• Local API sidecar runs all 60+ handlers locally (no cloud dependency)
• OS keychain integration for API key storage (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager)
• Ollama/LM Studio auto-discovery for local LLM models
• Settings window (Cmd+,) with 3 tabs: LLMs, API Keys, Debug & Logs
• Verbose debug mode with last 200 request logs
• Auto-update checker (polls every 6 hours)

Download:

• macOS Apple Silicon (.dmg)
• macOS Intel (.dmg)
• Windows (.exe)
• Linux (.AppImage)

Web App (PWA)

Advantages:

• No installation required (progressive web app)
• Installable to home screen on mobile/desktop
• Offline map support (MapTiler tiles cached, 500-tile limit, 30-day TTL)
• Auto-updating service worker (checks every 60 minutes)
• Smart caching strategies (NetworkOnly for APIs, CacheFirst for map tiles)

Access:

• worldmonitor.app (full variant)
• tech.worldmonitor.app (tech variant)
• finance.worldmonitor.app (finance variant)
• happy.worldmonitor.app (happy variant)

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