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 This page links to examples of data that is as current as technically possible. If you know of similar sources, please list them here.
+**Geography**
+Open access to real-time satellite data is en emerging interest area (see [[http://www.nature.com/news/satellites-make-earth-observations-open-access-1.15804|recent Nature article]]): check out [[http://landsat.usgs.gov/|Landsat]] for imagery and data. Learn about using [[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_API_and_Database|OpenStreetMap's data]] which can be downloaded historically, or looked up in hourly or minutely differentials as people edit the world.
 **Transportation**
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 The Internet of Things is a movement to put all kinds of devices online, it is important that their data is accessible with high precision in time. You can find public data feeds on these sites: [[http://thingspeak.com/channels/public]], [[http://data.sparkfun.com]], [[http://thingful.net]], [[http://dweet.io/see]].
+Also look for crowdsourcing projects like [[http://www.blitzortung.org/|Blitzortung]] (real time lightning strikes) which can complement existing - and usually nationally-bounded - data sources like [[http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/current|US water data]].