Inside GIA

What you can do

• Each report shows its source, Admiralty grade (A1 to F6), verification status and a link to the original
• Official statements are labelled as the body's own words; state media and single-source reports say so
• Layers for ships, aircraft, military bases, front lines, infrastructure, fires, rainfall, air quality and live cameras
• Filter by region, incident type, source and time window
• Dark, street and satellite maps, a 3D view, and a globe with NASA imagery
• Click any place for its card, the way a map app shows a place's details

Where it comes from

Official government and international feeds, UCDP and GDELT, research institutes, newsrooms, NASA FIRMS and GIBS, OpenStreetMap and multiple other databases: 100 sources in all, each with its own health status.

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turn on fires show the Wire satellite view

What you can do

• About 4,900 units at some 2,300 home bases worldwide, grouped under their commands, with a switch for each U.S. combatant command's area
• Russian and Ukrainian units on the Russia–Ukraine war map at their last geolocated sighting, with full NATO symbols
• Each country's equipment: aircraft, ships and submarines, ground vehicles, small arms, artillery and air defence, sensors and radios, each with photos
• An order of battle for every country, from the top command down to battalions, grouped by purpose, with insignia for about 7,000 units
• Every unit, weapon and ship has its own page in GIA: photos with their credits, figures, a summary and the countries that use it
• Carrier strike groups with their air wings and escorts, and exercises and operations from DVIDS
• Show NATO units, adversary units or both, from a U.S./NATO or a neutral point of view

Where it comes from

Multiple databases and sources, including GeoConfirmed, DeepStateMap, DVIDS and U.S. Navy photo captions, with freely licensed photos. No individuals' names appear in the orders of battle.

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show adversary units only in Venezuela turn off NATO units in Europe tell me about the AK-12

What you can do

• Police, Fire and EMS switches, and a window from the last 24 hours to a full year
• The 911 board: the calls on screen as a dispatch list, newest first, with hot calls (gunfire, stabbings, armed robbery, working fires) flagged, counts by kind, a chart of calls over time, clusters of hot calls within a few blocks, the busiest agencies and a word search
• 911 watch: mark an area (a site, a campus, a city) and get an alert when a new shooting, stabbing, armed robbery or working fire is reported there
• One dot per block or intersection, coloured by kind: violence and weapons, fire, medical, theft and damage, traffic
• Each call in the agency's own words, with its local time, priority and outcome, and a link to the original record
• 89 agency feeds in 30 states and Washington, DC: New York City (FDNY EMS and fire), Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Austin Fire live, Houston, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Nashville, Miami-Dade, Charlotte, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore and more, with Annapolis and Anne Arundel County in Maryland
• A call is what was reported, not a confirmed crime, and GIA says so on every one
• Refreshed every five minutes while the layer is on; agencies that publish later are marked

Where it comes from

Each agency's own open-data portal (Socrata and ArcGIS services), found and checked across every US state. Places are block-level or the nearest intersection; agencies withhold the location of sensitive calls, and GIA never tries to recover them.

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show 911 calls open the 911 board what's happening on the 911 map in Annapolis?

What you can do

• Switch each incident type on or off: armed clashes, shelling, air strikes, missiles and rockets, drones, guided bombs, air-raid alerts and more
• Counts for the time window and the command you have picked
• Quick sets: missiles and rockets only, strikes only, or everything
• The latest missile and rocket reports, each linked to its source
• Barrages, salvos and named systems (Iskander, Kinzhal, Kalibr, HIMARS, Grad) are recognised as missile and rocket attacks

Where it comes from

The same graded reports as the Wire, including official air-raid alert services and civil-defence channels.

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show missiles turn off drones open the incidents panel

What you can do

• "Aggressor" only where a UN body or an international court has found it; otherwise who opened the current round, with the date
• Active or quiet is measured from live reports, not guessed
• Front lines, the bases involved and one-click presets that open the conflict's card
• Each country's Security tab lists the wars and standoffs it takes part in, and its role

Where it comes from

UN resolutions and court rulings for roles, UCDP for organised violence, DeepStateMap for Ukraine's front line, and GIA's live reports for activity.

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open Conflicts apply the Ukraine war preset

What you can do

• Tension score with its factors and confidence, and a 30-day outlook
• Security and conflict, the military, alliances and blocs, and a relationship network of allies and rivals
• Climate: weather now, a 7-day forecast and the outlook ahead
• Economy, leaders, elections, and where every number comes from
• Compare up to four countries in the relationship network, and keep favourite countries and provinces

Where it comes from

World Bank, IMF, CIA World Factbook, UCDP, national weather services, Open-Meteo, and multiple other databases and sources.

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show Russia's military tab history of Venezuela

What you can do

• Future water shortages: each river basin's projected water stress in 2030, 2050 or 2080, under three scenarios
• Natural water hotspots: where people live over major groundwater basins, by how fast rain refills them
• 9,586 mineral deposits: gold, silver, platinum-group metals, rare earths and cobalt
• The top producers of each, with how concentrated supply is
• Click anywhere on a water layer for that basin's figures

Where it comes from

WRI Aqueduct 4.0, WHYMAP (BGR and UNESCO), USGS mineral resources data and Mineral Commodity Summaries.

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turn on water stress open the resources panel

What you can do

• Leaders, where each group operates, its goals and history
• FBI wanted notices naming the group
• Each change in its designation, from the Federal Register
• A group active in several commands' areas is listed under each

Where it comes from

U.S. State Department designations, the CIA World Factbook, the Federal Register and the FBI's Wanted list.

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open Terror Orgs

What you can do

• Plain-English commands: open screens and panels, switch layers by area and owner, pick a command, apply a preset
• Places and addresses: "show me 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington", "where is Kherson"
• Facts from GIA's own data: a country's small arms, a weapon's figures, a country's history
• Runs on your own computer through a free local AI model: your questions never leave it
• A guided tour of GIA, and the HUMINT course's lessons

Where it comes from

GIA's own data for facts; a free, open-weights model running locally through Ollama for analysis, labelled as analysis.

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what can you do switch to CENTCOM and tell me what changed this week

What you can do

• Facts with numbered evidence; judgements with standard likelihood terms and confidence
• Foreign threats, the homeland, conflicts and a watch list of warning signs
• Gaps are named, never filled with guesswork
• Unverified social posts stay out of it

Where it comes from

GIA's graded reports for the facts; the assessment is written by a free local AI model and labelled as such.

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open the Daily Brief

What you can do

• Fourteen scenarios across the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, South Asia and Africa
• Zones, notional forces and movements for each phase, with what changes and why
• Built on published wargames and open reporting, with the assumptions and sources listed

Where it comes from

Published wargames and open reporting, listed in each scenario.

What you can do

• Your layers stay as they are: events, bases, unit locations, exercises, carriers, aircraft, ships, fires and cameras are narrowed to the area
• Points on land count by the country under them, at sea by the command's waters
• One-click presets for each command and for the Iran, Israel and Ukraine conflicts, on F1 to F10
• Global shows everything again

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switch to EUCOM go back to global

What you can do

• 237 launch pads and 40 more spaceports, from Kennedy and Baikonur to Wenchang, Sohae, Semnan and Mahia
• Each pad's launch count and orbital attempts, and its next launches with time, status and provider, refreshed hourly
• A Next launches list with countdowns to the fixed times; a click flies to the pad
• The Space Shuttle's pads (Kennedy LC-39A and 39B), its unused West Coast pad and its landing sites

Where it comes from

The Space Devs' Launch Library 2 (Apache 2.0), Wikidata, and NASA's Space Shuttle program.

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show launch sites

What you can do

• Pop out any top tab, any toolbar panel (Wire, Incidents, Alerts, Layers, Air, Sea…) or a country's brief into its own window
• Layer, basemap and command choices stay in sync, so a Layers panel on a second screen drives the main map
• Places picked in a panel window fly the main map; the toolbar moves to any edge, in rows or columns, and scrolls when space is short

What you can do

• Click a plane for a photo of its airframe type; click a ship for the ship itself or one of its type
• Aircraft carriers placed from U.S. Navy photo captions, with how far each may be from its marker
• Military bases worldwide, with the bases of countries set against the U.S. and its allies ringed in red
• Maritime chokepoints and shipping lanes

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show military aircraft turn on ships

What you can do

• Cameras grouped by country, including U.S. traffic and wildfire cameras
• Open any top tab in its own window to watch several screens at once

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open cameras open live news

What you can do

• Three parts with hands-on exercises, and targeting-analysis modules from JP 3-60
• Gia teaches each lesson and asks questions to check what you learned

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open the HUMINT course

What you can do

• Creating a room is Pro; anyone you invite can join free
• GIA Team: one subscription, five people, with seats you can swap any time

What you can do

• Measure distances and drop reference points for range and bearing
• A toolbar you can move to any edge, as rows or columns, and panels you can drag and resize
• A command bar (Ctrl+K): type a screen, layer, country or plain request and press Enter, done at once and offline
• One key for each screen and tool (? lists them all), and any key you like for any action
• Saved 3D views of Google's 3D models (GIA Pro), favourites, PDF briefs and CSV exports
• API keys you add for optional sources show when they expire

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measure 3D view reset the map