Sources & credits
Atlas World News is built on open maps, open data and free news services. Thank you to everyone who makes them.
Maps
- geoBoundaries · city, town and district borders, CC BY 4.0 Runfola, D. et al. (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866.
- Vietnamese Provinces Database · Vietnam’s 34 provinces and 3,321 communes (2025), MIT licence Copyright © 2021 Thang Le Quoc. From the Vietnam Administrative Units Reference Map.
- Natural Earth via world-atlas · country, state, coast and lake outlines and rivers, public domain
- GeoNames · cities and towns, CC BY 4.0
- © OpenStreetMap contributors · place search and town outlines through Nominatim, ODbL
- BigDataCloud · finding the place under the view
News
- The GDELT Project · local news and outlets by country Every story belongs to its publisher, named next to it; Atlas links to the original.
- Bing News · search across outlets, including Reuters, AP and CNN
- The networks’ own news feeds · BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, DW, France 24, Fox News, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, Sky News, Euronews, CNBC, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post and the Los Angeles Times
- Spaceflight News API · Space News
- Jina Reader · whole-story text for reading and listening
Weather & big events
- Weather data by Open-Meteo.com · forecasts and place search, CC BY 4.0
- MET Norway · forecasts for Earth News’ Sky Report, CC BY 4.0
- USGS · earthquakes
- GDACS · storms, floods and other disasters
- NASA EONET · wildfires and volcanoes
- US National Weather Service · severe weather warnings
Built with
- three.js (MIT) · the globe
- d3-geo and topojson-client (ISC) · map drawing
- Plus Jakarta Sans (SIL Open Font Licence) · the type
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