Every story, every city, every moment — indexed in real time. Every connection, every thread, every heartbeat of the planet — visible at last.
XYZO is building the most comprehensive, real-time map of global news ever created. We ingest, analyze, and geolocate news from thousands of sources across every continent, then plot them on an interactive map so you can explore what is happening anywhere on Earth.
But we're not just mapping news. We're mapping life itself — the food festivals and family celebrations, the scientific discoveries and spiritual moments, the community projects and random acts of kindness. Every story matters. Every place matters. Every person matters.
Our goal is to help people understand global news through place and geography, and to reveal the connections between stories that are invisible in standard linear feeds. When you see how a food festival in Tokyo connects to farming in Kenya connects to weather patterns connects to climate connects to trade connects to families — you begin to see the web of life.
We are committed to 100% free and open information — no paywalls, no subscription gates. We strictly respect publisher robots.txt files and terms of service.
XYZO tracks 128,000+ connections between stories. When you enable "Links" on the map, you see the nervous system of the planet — how every story connects to every other story through shared locations, sources, entities, and topics.
This is the Earth intelligence we're building: a system that understands not just what is happening, but how everything connects.
Because nourishment is sacred. From farm to table, from seed to harvest, food connects us all.
Because joy is essential. Festivals, music, art, comedy — the human spirit celebrating itself.
Because every person matters. Love, family, kindness, community — the heart of it all.
Because knowledge empowers. Politics, business, science — the backbone of understanding.
Because truth illuminates. Discovery, innovation, research — pushing humanity forward.
Because everything is linked. 128,000+ story connections reveal the web of life.
XYZO watches 2,970+ news sources across 220 countries & territories, ingesting 50,000+ articles daily. Our AI pipeline:
1. Ingests news from RSS feeds, community submissions, and web scraping
2. Extracts locations, topics, and entities using Gemma-4 AI
3. Geocodes stories to exact coordinates using Nominatim
4. Clusters related articles into events (multiple sources = one pin)
5. Connects stories through shared locations, sources, and topics
6. Ranks everything with neural networks that learned from real behavior
The result: a living, breathing map of Earth that shows not just what is happening, but how everything connects.
Built with OpenStreetMap, Natural Earth, Leaflet, and open AI models. We believe in transparent, open tools for understanding the world.
Our neural pipeline learns from itself — auto-labeling generates training data, user corrections flow into retraining, and the system gets smarter every day.
No paywalls, no subscriptions, no registration. Every story on Earth should be accessible to everyone, everywhere.
We respect robots.txt and crawl slowly. Government and university sources get extra protection — we never hammer them.
When you look at XYZO's map, you see more than news. You see:
🍕 Food festivals connecting to farming connecting to weather connecting to climate connecting to trade connecting to families connecting to love.
🎭 Weddings in Brazil connecting to births in India connecting to graduations in Nigeria connecting to community projects in Indonesia.
🔬 Scientists in Japan connecting to researchers in Germany connecting to discoveries in Brazil — all working on the same problems, all connected.
Every pin on the map is a story. Every story is connected to other stories. The connections form a web — the nervous system of the planet.
Click "Links" on the map to see this web. Watch how stories from different continents, different cultures, different languages are all part of one great human conversation.
I'm the author and creator of xyzo.org. I created XYZO because I believe the world needs a better way to see itself — not through the lens of algorithms that maximize engagement, but through the lens of geography, connection, and meaning.
Every story matters. Every place matters. Every person matters. XYZO is my attempt to build a system that honors all of that.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, or if you'd like to help or collaborate on our AI & geolocation algorithms, search code, or have specific UI recommendations!
All news content belongs to respective publishers. XYZO indexes publicly available RSS/web headlines and links directly to original publisher sites.
We strictly obey all robots.txt directives and per-host crawling rate limits. Government and university sources get extra protection.
XYZO stores anonymous analytics (viewport changes, search terms) to improve map coverage. No personal data is tracked or sold.
XYZO is open-source. We believe in building tools that everyone can use, improve, and learn from.