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Starting points. Never prisons.

24 published templates built on open data from NASA, USGS, WRI, the Smithsonian, Our World in Data and a live orbit feed. Every one is a normal project: open it live, embed it on this page, or copy it into your workspace and take it apart.

Story

Scroll-driven narratives: a sticky map, chapters that fly the camera, filter layers and pulse highlights.

4 templates
A century of great earthquakes: story cover with 1,618 M7+ events on a dark basemap
8.0000°N 160.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°
StoryScience & explainer

A century of great earthquakes

Every M7+ earthquake since 1900 from the USGS catalog: 1,618 events, 108 of them M8 or larger. Ring-of-fire choreography, per-chapter time windows, pulsing highlights on the four M9s (Kamchatka 1952, Valdivia 1960, Alaska 1964, Sumatra 2004, Tōhoku 2011) and a final chapter that extrudes magnitude into 3D columns.

World · Pacific rim7 ch
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CO₂: who burns what: per-capita choropleth story cover on the atlas basemap
24.0000°N 12.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°
StoryEnergy & climate

CO₂: who burns what

Our World in Data's CO₂ series joined to Natural Earth countries. Per-capita choropleths for 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2022 that crossfade as you scroll, a Gulf close-up where Qatar reaches 38 tonnes per person, and a final 3D chapter extruding total emissions: China 11,712 Mt, the United States 5,055, India 2,831.

World · Gulf6 ch
Open live
Where meteorites fall: scroll story cover with a heatmap of 32,186 meteorite finds
18.0000°N 12.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°
StoryScience & explainer

Where meteorites fall

32,186 located meteorites from NASA's Meteorite Landings catalog. A density heatmap of every find, the difference between a witnessed fall and a find, a numbered tour of the six heaviest irons from Hoba to Willamette, the 1970s to 2000s harvest in the deserts, and the 22,099 stones recovered on Antarctic blue ice.

World · Antarctica6 ch
Open live

Dashboard

Linked widgets over a map: KPIs, charts, filters and tables that recompute when you move or click.

9 templates
Global seismic watch: live dashboard on the USGS feed
20.0000°N 10.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°live
DashboardOperations

Global seismic watch: live

USGS past-7-days feed refreshed every 5 minutes. World map with magnitude-scaled circles, KPIs for events, max and average magnitude, events-per-day series, magnitude histogram, network breakdown, magnitude-type filter and a linked table, all recomputed for the map viewport.

World9 widgets
Open live
World power plants: live dashboard with a fuel-coloured map, KPIs, fuel bar, donut and table
22.0000°N 10.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°
DashboardEnergy & climate

World power plants

The WRI Global Power Plant Database, 34,936 plants in 167 countries and 5,707 GW of capacity, as a linked dashboard. Map coloured by primary fuel and sized by capacity, KPIs for plants and gigawatts in view, renewable share, a fuel bar that filters everything, country filter, draw-an-area spatial filter, capacity table with fly-to.

World10 widgets
Open live

Slides

Briefings on the same beats: one map state per slide, presenter mode with notes and a laser.

2 templates
Volcanoes of the world: title slide over an atlas basemap
8.0000°N 150.0000°E · z 1.6 · ⟂ 0°
SlidesScience & explainer

Volcanoes of the world

The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program's 1,214 Holocene volcanoes as a six-slide briefing: the volcanic regions, the 660 stratovolcanoes against every other landform, the 231 that erupted since 2000, the Andean giants extruded by elevation, and the East African Rift. Presenter notes on every slide.

World · Andes · East Africa6 slides
Open live

Insight

A card with a mini map and KPIs that expands into a drawer, made to be embedded in other pages.

9 templates
ISS right now: live insight card with a mini map, altitude and velocity
12.0000°N 0.0000°E · z 0.9 · ⟂ 0°live
InsightEmbed · live

ISS right now

A live Insight Container on the International Space Station: a REST connection to wheretheiss.at polled every 15 seconds, one moving point on a dark world map, altitude and speed as KPIs. Collapsed it is a card with a mini map and one sentence; expanded it is the map, four KPIs, a note and the raw record.

Low Earth orbit2 states
Open live
Copy, not clone. Use template writes a full project into your workspace, with datasets, layers, beats, annotations, metrics and surfaces that you own and can delete.
Embed runs here. Every card's Embed panel loads the real published surface through /embed.js, so you see exactly what your page will get.
Live stays live. Connections come with the copy: the ISS feed keeps polling in your workspace; switch any layer to a frozen snapshot from the layer policy.

Or start from a basemap and a file.

Drop a GeoJSON or a CSV and Spatly drafts the first chapter, slide and KPI for you.

41.0082°N 28.9784°E · z 11.3 · ⟂ 0°