Live Earth Map: GPS Camera — Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-11-02 · Publisher: Anti Corporation · anticorporation@whoifnot.us

In short: Data Not Collected. The app has no account, no login, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDK and no in-app purchases. Your photos and settings stay on your iPhone. We never receive your location, your photos or anything about how you use the app. When you open a webcam, its stream plays inside the app in YouTube's or Windy's own embedded player, which may set its own cookies and collect data under its own privacy policy (see Webcams).

Location

• With your permission ("While Using the App"), the app reads your location on your iPhone to stamp photos you take with coordinates and altitude and to show where you are on the map.
• To print a street address on the stamp, the coordinates are looked up through Apple's geocoding service (CLGeocoder), part of iOS. That lookup is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; we receive nothing from it.
• If you decline location access, the camera still works and the stamp shows the time only.

Camera and photos

• Camera. Used only when you open the GPS camera to take a photo. iOS asks for permission at that moment.
• Your stamped photos are stored in the app's own storage on your iPhone. They leave the device only when you share them yourself through the iOS share sheet.
• Saving to Photos is optional and uses add-only access: the app can add a photo to your library, but it cannot see, read or change anything already in it.

Network requests

To show the map layers, the app downloads public data directly from these sources. None of these requests carries an account, an advertising identifier, a device identifier or your location:

• NASA GIBS (satellite imagery, and NASA FIRMS VIIRS fire detections)
• USGS (earthquakes)
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (aurora forecast)
• Space station and satellite positions: orbital data (CelesTrak GP data, fetched by our server every 6 h and served from this site as satellites.json; no request carries an identifier)
• Windy.com Webcams API (the webcam list for the visible map area from Windy.com, requested by the app with no identifier or location: the request names only the map area on screen, never where you are)
• YouTube (privacy-enhanced embed, youtube-nocookie.com) and Windy.com webcam players, loaded only when you open a webcam (see Webcams)
• Public traffic cameras of road agencies, loaded only when you open one of their pins (see Traffic cameras): Caltrans (California Department of Transportation), NYC DOT (New York City Department of Transportation) and Fintraffic Digitraffic (Finland; road weather camera images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), source: Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi)
• Apple MapKit and CLGeocoder (the base map and address lookup, operated by Apple)
• This website (the list of public webcams, webcams.json, the list of public traffic cameras, cameras.json, and a small settings file, config.json)

Like any web server, these services may see the network address of the request in their own server logs. The app adds nothing to identify you.

Traffic cameras

The Cameras layer also shows public traffic cameras published by road agencies: Caltrans, NYC DOT and Fintraffic Digitraffic. Some stream live video, others publish a new photo every few seconds or minutes (the app shows that delay). The list of cameras comes from this website (cameras.json); nothing is requested from an agency until you open one of its cameras. Then the app loads that camera's live video stream or its latest photo directly from the agency's server, and keeps reloading the photo at its interval while the camera is open. These requests carry no account, no identifier and no location; like any web server, the agency's server may see the network address of the request. Video plays in Apple's own player inside the app. Fintraffic Digitraffic images are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (source: Fintraffic / digitraffic.fi).

Webcams

Webcams are public live streams shown as pins with a title and city. Nothing is loaded from YouTube or Windy until you open a webcam. When you open a YouTube webcam, the stream plays inside the app in YouTube's embedded player in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com); it does not start until you tap play. That player is run by YouTube: it may set its own cookies or similar storage and collect data such as your network address and how you use the player, under YouTube's terms and Google's privacy policy. The app keeps the player's storage only while the app is running and passes it nothing about you: no account, no identifier, no location. You can also tap Watch live on YouTube to open the stream in the YouTube app or in Safari, outside this app.

Some webcam pins come from Windy.com (webcams provided by Windy.com; anyone can add a webcam). For these, the app asks the Windy.com Webcams API for the webcams in the map area on screen, and, when you open one, for that webcam's player; the requests carry no identifier and no location. The webcam then plays inside the app in Windy's own embedded player, which is run by Windy and may set its own cookies or similar storage and collect data under Windy's privacy policy and terms. You can also tap View on Windy to open the webcam on windy.com in Safari, outside this app. This website never stores or serves Windy data.

Children, tracking and third parties

The app does not track you across apps or websites, does not use third-party SDKs, does not sell or share data and does not collect data from anyone, including children. The webcam players described above are web pages run by YouTube and Windy, shown only when you open a webcam; they are not part of the app's code, and anything they collect is governed by their own policies, not by us. Because no data is collected, there is nothing for us to disclose, retain or delete on our side. Deleting the app deletes its photos and settings from your iPhone (photos you saved to the Photos library stay there).

Android app (Google Play)

The Android version of Live Earth Map works the same way, with these platform differences:

• Address lookup. To print a street address on the stamp, the photo's coordinates are sent to Android's built-in geocoding service (android.location.Geocoder). On most phones this service is operated by Google under Google's privacy policy; we receive nothing from it. If your phone has no geocoding service, the stamp shows the coordinates and "address unavailable". Because these coordinates leave the phone, the app's Google Play Data safety section lists approximate and precise location as data handled for app functionality only.
• Map. The map is drawn by MapLibre (open source) from NASA GIBS imagery; no Google Maps, no map account and no API key are used.
• Webcams. The Android app shows the webcams from this website only (no Windy.com list). Watch live opens the stream in your video app or browser, outside this app.
• Photos. Stamped photos are stored in the app's own storage on your phone, without location metadata inside the file (the stamp is the record). "Also save to Gallery" adds a copy to your gallery with add-only access; the app never reads your gallery.
• Permissions. Camera, approximate and precise location (only while you use the app), and internet access. No background location, no notifications, no contacts, no microphone.
• No account, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party analytics or crash SDK, exactly as on iPhone. Deleting the app deletes its photos and settings from your phone (copies you saved to your gallery stay there).

Changes and contact

Changes to this policy are posted at this address with a new effective date. Questions: anticorporation@whoifnot.us. Help: support page.