In Norse mythology Odin keeps two ravens: Huginn, thought, and Muninn, memory. Each dawn they are sent out across the world to gather what has happened, and each evening they return to his shoulders to report it.
Huginn and Muninn fly every day over the great earth; I fear for Huginn that he may not return, but I fear more for Muninn.
Grímnismál, Poetic Edda
He fears for both, and sends them anyway. Nothing reaches the high seat that a raven has not flown out and seen for itself.
This project is named for the first raven, the one that goes and looks. It surveys a live planet — aircraft transponders, ship beacons, orbital elements, seismographs and public cameras — and reports what is actually there. None of it is classified; all of it is already being broadcast. It keeps the second raven's habit as well: when a feed goes quiet, the last known state is retained and served with its age declared, rather than reporting an empty world.
Huginn Earth is a project by Emanuele Pagani. It is built on God's Eye View by Bilawal Sidhu, the open-source project from which it was branched.
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