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Filters

Verification

Unverified and disputed reports show under All only.

Event types
Area

Moves the map only; the list is not filtered by area.

Layers
Map key

Confidence (colour and symbol: the event type; symbols from zoom 5)

  • ConfirmedCorroboratedSingle sourceUnverified (hollow)
  • Half-filled: disputed, sources contradict each other
  • Slashed grey: debunked (only when shown)
  • Amber dot: has a warning or awaits review
  • Dashed edge: approximate location (area, unknown, or estimated by AI)
  • White ring: reported in the last hour
  • Siren alerts are never drawn larger than single source: an alert, not a confirmed impact

Age (the fill fades; the edge stays)

  • Under 6 h6–24 h24–48 hOlder

Grouping

  • Numbered disc: cluster, or several reports at one point (zoomed in, with the symbols of their types under it)
  • Dashed chip: reports that name only a country, with the symbols of their types
  • Amber dashed chip: air traffic over a whole country has dropped (grey: recovered). It sits beside the airport its count is anchored to, and is not a place

Other layers

  • Aircraft (live ADS-B): civil grey, military white
  • Amber plane in white ring: emergency squawk
  • Plane in a circle: a reported air-activity event
  • Ships (live AIS), pointing where they head: cargo green, tanker rust, passenger blue, fishing ochre, others grey; a diamond reports no heading
  • White ship: military; with a blue band: law enforcement
  • Hollow ship with “?”: its AIS went quiet while ships near it still report
  • Amber triangle: air-traffic drop (grey: recovered)
  • Pink ring: satellite heat detection (cause unknown); dimmer near a known industrial site; a pink haze when zoomed out
  • Grey square: reference place (Infrastructure: airport, port, oil and gas, power, military site, border crossing)
About these layers

Aircraft: live ADS-B positions. Civil planes are small and grey and appear from zoom 5; military planes are white and always shown. An amber plane in a white ring is squawking an emergency code (7500 hijack, 7600 radio failure, 7700 emergency); it is always shown, on top.

Ships: live AIS positions from the last hour. Ordinary ships appear from zoom 5; military, law-enforcement and silent ships are always shown. A hollow ship with a “?” was under way at its last report, 1 to 12 h ago, and ships near that spot still report. AIS is what each ship’s transponder says: it can be switched off or faked, and coverage is thin in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Heat: satellite heat detections from the last 24 h, a pink haze when zoomed out and hollow pink rings from zoom 7. Cause unknown. Larger rings mean more radiative power.

Disruptions: airports where the aircraft arriving, departing or parked fell sharply below what is normal there, from ADS-B counts. Amber: ongoing; grey: recovered. The signal does not say why.

Infrastructure (off by default): reference places from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), OurAirports, Wikidata (CC0), the NGA World Port Index and a curated list, as grey squares from zoom 6 with names from zoom 8. Oil-field points are field centres. Hospitals and dams are deliberately left out.

Heat within a few km of a known oil, gas or power site is drawn dimmer while “Dim heat at known industrial sites” is on. It is never hidden: flaring is routine there, but a strike on the site would look the same.

Arrow keys pan, plus and minus zoom, Enter lists what is at the centre. Every event is in Latest. Signals lists disruptions, emergency and military aircraft, ships whose AIS went quiet and the strongest heat detections; other aircraft, ships, heat detections and reference places are reached by moving the map and pressing Enter.

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About sitmap.live

What this is

An unofficial open-source intelligence (OSINT) map of conflict reporting in the Middle East, built from public posts. It is not a news service and nothing on it is confirmed by its makers. Verify before acting.

How AI is used

Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, reads public posts (news feeds, Telegram channels, X and crowd reports). It drops posts that are not about the conflict, extracts the claims in the rest, and writes each event's title and summary; the code groups claims about the same event. It also drafts a verification judgement. GDELT's machine-coded records are stored as leads and never sent to Claude; sirens, NOTAMs, UKMTO and other structured records become reports without it.

Rules then set the verification state from the number of independent sources and any official confirmation. The AI judgement can lower that state (it is what marks a report disputed or debunked) or add a warning; it never raises it.

The AI can be wrong: titles, summaries, places and times may contain mistakes. Open the linked sources before relying on anything.

Verification states

Confirmed
Two or more independent origins agree and an official body confirms it, or it is the authority’s own notice (a NOTAM or a Home Front Command alert). For a siren alert that means only that the alert sounded, not that anything struck: it is labelled “Official alert issued”, and siren markers are never drawn larger than single source.
Corroborated
Two or more independent origins agree.
Single source
One credible source so far (official, wire, established outlet or OSINT).
Unverified
No credible or independent source yet.
Disputed
Sources contradict each other.
Debunked
Judged false or misattributed; kept for the record, and shown only when “Show debunked and hidden” is on (Filters).

Warnings

Locations

Places are matched with a gazetteer (GeoNames, OCHA's Gaza neighbourhoods and a curated list) and, for airports, ports, oil, gas and power sites and military bases, with reference data from OurAirports, Wikidata and the NGA World Port Index. Some points are estimated by AI from the place name and some mark only an area's centre (district or region): their markers have a dashed edge. Reports that name only a country are not drawn as points: a dashed chip at the country's centre counts them. Reports with no place that could be mapped are listed in Latest, marked “No map location”. A point is never more exact than the report behind it.

Times

Times are shown in your local time zone, with its abbreviation; the details panel also gives UTC. A time stated in a report can be wrong, and when a report gives none, the time the report was first seen is used.

Live layers

Links and citations

The address bar keeps the time range, filters, map view and open event, so a copied address reopens the same view. In an event’s details, Copy link gives a link to that event and Copy citation gives plain text with its state, warnings, place, time in UTC and source links. When you quote a title or summary, say that it was written by AI.

Credits