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Every figure, name and mark this video puts on screen, chased to a primary source. Checked 26 August 2026.

The repository

God’s Eye View, by Bilawal Sidhu, at github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view. Described by its author as “A spy satellite simulator in your browser, except the data is real. Live open source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe.”

• Source: https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
• Source: https://api.github.com/repos/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view

On screen	Value	Where it comes from
stars	5,031	GitHub API, stargazers_count, 26 August 2026
forks	1,277	GitHub API, forks_count, 26 August 2026
licence	MIT	The repository’s LICENSE file and its README
language	JavaScript	GitHub API, language
first commit	June 2026	GitHub API, created_at, 22 June 2026
topics	geospatial-intelligence, osint, cesium, 3d-globe, flight-tracking, webgl	GitHub API, topics

Stars and forks move. They are shown as the count on the date above and the shot carries that date in its source line.

On the licence. The LICENSE file is the MIT licence, with a note that the third party data and assets the app reaches for are not covered by it and stay under their own terms. GitHub’s own licence detector reports NOASSERTION for the repository because of that added note, so the API field and the file disagree. The file is what governs the code, so the shot says MIT.

• Source: https://api.github.com/repos/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/license

What it puts on the map

Thirteen live layers, per the repository’s README:

Layer	Provider named by the repo	Access
Map stack	Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, Bing aerial, OpenStreetMap	Google key required, metered billing
Live flights	OpenSky, adsb.lol	anonymous, credits optional
Military flights	adsb.lol	open
Live vessels	AISStream	free key
Satellites	CelesTrak	open
Earthquakes	USGS	open
Traffic	TomTom, OpenStreetMap	approximate without TomTom
CCTV mesh	city APIs	open
Radio	Radio Browser and broadcasters	open
Bikeshare	GBFS	open
Active fires	NASA FIRMS	free key
Space missions	Launch Library 2	open, token optional
Mapped installations	OpenStreetMap	open

Bundled static datasets, per the same README:

On screen	Value
datacentres	4,351
dams	704
submarine cables	712
public cameras	about 800, across Austin, California and London

• Source: https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/README.md

What it is built out of

• Vanilla JavaScript with Vite.
• CesiumJS, with Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles.
• The OpenAI Realtime API for hands free control, exposing 28 tools across four job categories: camera control, annotation, analysis queries and console operations.

• Node.js 24.14.x or 26.x to develop against.

• Source: https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/README.md

What it costs to run

The README separates the keys three ways, and the video’s gate diagrams follow it exactly:

• Required, metered: a Google Maps API key, for the photorealistic 3D tiles.
• Recommended, metered: an OpenAI API key, for voice control and the AI readouts.
• Free keys: AISStream, NASA FIRMS, Launch Library 2, Cesium ion, OpenSky.

• Premium, optional: TomTom, for real time traffic rather than an approximation.

• Source: https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/README.md

What the project says it will not do

The repository states that it models events, assets, infrastructure and systems, and that it does not build features for named person search, face recognition or tracking individuals. It also carries a data disclaimer that its data may be delayed, incomplete, modelled, inferred or wrong, and is not for navigation, emergency response, medical, or investment decisions.

That is why the video’s OSINT chapter draws vessels, aircraft, cameras and weather rather than people, and says so in the narration.

• Source: https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/README.md

Marks used on screen

Every product named on screen carries its own published mark, taken as geometry from the simple-icons package: GitHub, Google Earth, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, NASA, TomTom, Cesium, ESRI. The OpenAI mark is not in simple-icons any more and is carried as the published blossom geometry rather than approximated.

Not checked

• Star and fork counts move. Both are the figure on 26 August 2026 and are labelled with that date on screen.
• The author’s background. The narration names Bilawal Sidhu and nothing else about him, and nothing about his history is stated on screen or in the voiceover.
• Every readout inside the drawn map interface — the latitude, longitude, zoom, bearing, feature counts, fleet sizes, job distances and rate limit gauges — is the video’s own illustration of what such an interface shows, for a place the video does not name. None of them is a measurement of anything, and none of them is presented as one.
• The freshness dials in the source quality chapter describe what a good interface ought to display rather than what any particular feed currently reports.
• Provider quality and coverage by region are described in the narration in general terms. The repository says coverage varies; the video does not quantify it.
• Weather is not one of the repository’s thirteen layers, and neither is search. The narration lists both among the kinds of signal a spatial tool should carry, and the video draws them, but no provider mark is put beside either, because the repository names none.
• The nine layer names in the layer stack shot are the ones the supplied narration lists, not the thirteen the README enumerates. Both are recorded above; the shot follows the words that were recorded.
• Satellite imagery carries the Google Maps mark, because that is the platform the repository’s imagery is billed through. The Google Earth mark appears only where the narration itself says Google Earth.