US National Park Service OFFICIAL
Yellowstone National Park
Publicly browsable geyser and landscape webcams, including Old Faithful. Some are still images, while one offers a stream. Use the park's own viewer.
Open NPS webcams ↗Earth observation · Future feature
Earth Cameras
A lighter way to explore the world through public camera sources. Inspired by location-based webcam pop-ups, but built as an original PlanetHeartbeat feature with privacy and device performance first.
PLANNED · DIRECTORY ONLY · 0 VIDEO STREAMS LOADING
Public camera source directory
These are links to independent providers—not embedded feeds or endorsements. Their availability and usage rights are controlled by each provider. Video or images load only if you choose to visit the provider's site.
US Geological Survey OFFICIAL
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Volcano research cameras and images, including Kīlauea and Mauna Loa observation locations. These are external provider views, not PlanetHeartbeat live measurements.
Browse USGS webcams ↗Windy Webcams THIRD PARTY
World webcam catalog
Geographic webcam discovery. Windy offers a free Webcams API tier with limits, but any in-app connection would require API terms review and a user-initiated loading design.
Explore Windy webcams ↗SkylineWebcams THIRD PARTY
City and landscape views
Public webcam viewing on the provider's website. The provider restricts embedding live video to webcam hosts; PlanetHeartbeat does not copy or embed their footage.
View SkylineWebcams ↗Low-resource integration roadmap
PHASE 1 · IMPLEMENTEDSource directory
Text links and licensing notes only. No automatic requests to camera providers, no background refresh, no autoplay or geolocation.
PHASE 2 · NOT ACTIVEOn-demand still view
Investigate a single manually loaded still frame only where a publisher expressly permits reuse. Load after user action; stop and clear media on close.
PHASE 3 · NOT ACTIVEOptional live player
Only with written/provider-permitted embedding, strong mobile data-saver defaults, an explicit Play button, one active stream maximum and guaranteed Stop.
Current resource impact inside PlanetHeartbeat
- Automatically loaded streams
- 0
- Automatically loaded camera images
- 0
- Camera API requests or API keys
- 0
- Live video recording or storage
- None
- Camera geolocation permission
- Not requested
Publicly viewable is not the same as freely reusable. Before embedding a provider's camera, permission, attribution, commercial-use conditions and stream stability must be reviewed. A future camera preview will never be an emergency, aviation or navigational source.