God’s Eye View Blew Up. Here's What You Can Do With It.

God’s Eye View blew up and hit #1 on GitHub Trending. Two big questions keep coming up: how do I run it if I’m not a coder, and can you give me a proper walkthrough? This is the walkthrough. We go from getting it running on your computer to tracking aircraft and ships, riding along in a cockpit, exploring public cameras, and controlling the globe with your voice. I also show you how to record camera tours, explore fires, earthquakes and the physical internet, and start building your own tools on top of it. Along the way, we get into where the data comes from, what’s live, and where the coverage breaks down. Get the code + setup guide → https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view One-click installer → https://pinokio.co/apps/github-com-bilawalsidhu-gods-eye-view Get Pinokio (8.2+) → https://desktop.pinokio.co/ I’m honestly overwhelmed by the support. Chris Messina, the creator of the Twitter hashtag, put it on Product Hunt. Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, shared the repo and called it “pretty cool.” And so many of you have been installing it, making videos, and building on top of it. Thank you. Would you use a hosted version you could open without installing anything? Let me know in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 God’s Eye View Blew Up 1:06 Install God’s Eye View 2:08 The Interface, Flight Tracking & Radio 5:51 Contacts Mode & Cockpit View 7:47 Control the World With Your Voice 11:25 Area 51 Easter Egg 12:40 Traffic & Public Cameras 15:55 Track Ships & Ride Along With Flights 19:55 Record Your Own Camera Tours 21:06 Fires, Earthquakes & the Physical Internet 24:18 Reconstructing Nepal Floods 25:55 Building God’s Eye View Together CODING-AGENT SETUP PROMPT Paste this into a coding agent that runs on your computer: “Set up God’s Eye View from https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view on my computer. Read the current README, check the prerequisites, install it, and launch the default keyless version. Then walk me through enabling photorealistic 3D and voice in the app’s POWER UP panel. Guide me through any new API keys I need, but keep API keys local; don’t ask me to paste them into this chat. Once it's up and running, please give me instructions to use it.” PROJECT LINKS Current setup + provider requirements → https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view Data sources + attribution → https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/DATA_SOURCES.md Contribute → https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Bugs + feature requests → https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view/issues WATCH NEXT The open-source launch → https://youtu.be/GRJaKcXZS94 Mapping the World playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6qSg2I-7_koCMygFwN3sjtkH-X2wABCe -- Subscribe for more in-depth videos! 👉 ‪@bilawalsidhu‬ Join My Newsletter: https://spatialintelligence.ai Connect with me on X/Twitter here: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu Everywhere else here: https://bilawal.ai Business inquiries: [email protected] Bio: Bilawal Sidhu is a creator, engineer, and product builder obsessed with blending reality and imagination using art and science. Bilawal is the technology curator for TED Talks, and a venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz. With more than a decade of experience in the tech industry, he spent six years as a product manager at Google, where he worked on spatial computing and 3D maps. His work has been featured in major publications including Bloomberg, Forbes, BBC, CNBC, and Fortune, among others. Bilawal’s journey into computer graphics began at 11, when he fell in love with seamlessly blending 3D into real life footage. Since then, he's captivated over 2M subscribers, garnering more than 750M+ views across his platforms. Driven by a mission to empower the next generation of artists and entrepreneurs, Bilawal openly shares AI-assisted workflows and industry insights on social media. When he’s not working, you can find Bilawal expanding his collection of electric guitars. TED: https://www.ted.com/speakers/bilawal_sidhu