often looking at a map gives you a better feeling for things
this is a globe that can display data
example data sets include active volcanos, UNESCO world heritage sites, IKEAs worldwide, …
but what makes this interesting is that it also implements WebMCP which lets an agent (e.g. ChatGPT desktop app) directly drive the globe
it exposes a handful of tools to add/load a dataset, do SQL queries and visualize the results using the globe
querying are powered by DuckDB (via webassembly)
globe is globe.gl (https://globe.gl)
more on WebMCP (OpenAI calls it 'site tools'): https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/webmcp
source: https://github.com/atlaslib/globe
demo video: https://x.com/__tosh/status/2096109149654339795
a hosted demo: https://atlas.paperclips.workers.dev
you can tell ChatGPT desktop app to open the url using the in-app browser, ask it about the available datasets and which queries it would propose to do, also you can tell it to research something you are interested in and to use the tools to put that onto the globe