PlanetHeartbeatV2.8.0 · FEATURES

V2.8.0 / FUNCTIONAL RELEASE

50 ways to discover our world.

City atlas, route planning estimates, solar tools, world clocks and interactive geography challenges.

What is new

  1. Search a bundled atlas of 72 global city centers
  2. Filter cities by six continents
  3. Search cities by name, country, or region
  4. Sort cities by name
  5. Sort cities by country
  6. Sort cities from north to south or vice versa
  7. Sort cities from east to west or vice versa
  8. Switch between city cards and compact list
  9. Select a city by clicking a map marker
  10. Inspect each city's country, coordinates and local clock
  11. Save favorite cities in browser storage
  12. Show only favorite cities
  13. Copy city coordinates and view them on OpenStreetMap
  14. Launch routes or Sun calculations from the selected city
  15. Export filtered city data to CSV
  16. Choose start and destination cities for a route
  17. Accept manually entered latitude and longitude route endpoints
  18. Calculate great-circle route distance in kilometers, miles and nautical miles
  19. Show initial bearing in degrees and compass directions
  20. Reverse a route with one click
  21. Interpolate five great-circle waypoints including midpoint
  22. Draw the spherical route on a coordinate-grid canvas
  23. Read geographic coordinates by clicking the route map
  24. Estimate journey duration across five travel speeds
  25. Copy a shareable link encoding route endpoints and mode
  26. Export a route as GPX
  27. Export route waypoints as CSV
  28. Save and reopen the five most recent routes
  29. Project a destination using distance and bearing
  30. Calculate geographic antipodes
  31. Convert decimal coordinates to DMS display
  32. Estimate geometric horizon distance based on height
  33. Estimate the circumference of a selected latitude circle
  34. Calculate longitude-based local mean solar-time offset
  35. Select a world city and local date/time for sunlight
  36. Calculate solar elevation and azimuth
  37. Estimate sunrise and sunset in city-local time
  38. Estimate daylight duration and solar noon
  39. Estimate civil twilight and Sun's 6° altitude crossings
  40. Plot estimated solar altitude throughout the day
  41. Jump to today and both solstice dates
  42. Estimate shadow length for a custom-height object
  43. Copy a plain-text solar observation report
  44. Display clocks for multiple selected cities simultaneously
  45. Show city UTC offsets with time-zone/DST handling
  46. Switch between 12- and 24-hour clocks
  47. Add, remove, reset and persist favorite world clocks
  48. Compare meeting times across city time zones and export an ICS calendar event
  49. Study a bank of 40 curated geography questions with topic and round-length filters
  50. Use shuffled quiz answers, practice hints, explanations, scoring, streaks, best-score saving, missed-answer review and keyboard shortcuts

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Calculations and positions are educational estimates, not navigation, operational or safety guidance. No paid data sources were added.