Atlynx is currently in version 0.1 beta. De facto borders for fast-changing conflicts are manually updated. Once the first full release is finalized, borders for major conflicts will be updated at least once a week. This project is carried out by a single person who is a full-time student. Therefore, I ask all of you a bit of patience, I know the website is far from complete or perfect and I am here to improve with you!
Russo-Ukrainian frontline (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson) is up to date.
Recent Israeli occupations in southern Lebanon is reflected.
Rebel-controlled borders in eastern Congo are not fully mapped. M23 is present, but other rebels need to be added. Coming in 1-2 weeks.
Houthi, government, STC, and other faction borders are up to date.
RSF and SAF territorial control borders are up to date.
SDF, Turkish-controlled, and government areas are up to date.
Resistance and ethnic armed organization territory boundaries are up to date.
Al-Shabaab and government-controlled areas are relatively stable and up to date.
GNA and LNA territorial control borders are up to date.
Government and armed group territorial control borders are up to date.
Borders and Sahel alliance territorial representation are up to date.
Government, Tuareg, and jihadist-controlled area borders are up to date.
Government and JNIM/ISGS-influenced area borders are up to date.
Internal conflict borders (Tigray, Amhara, Oromia regions) are not yet mapped. Coming soon.
No updates yet — this is the initial release. Updates will appear here as new border data and features are added.
The Mythos era is a mythic reconstruction of Homer's world — the kingdoms of the Achaeans, the monster-haunted isles, and the animated voyages of Odysseus and Telemachus. Unlike the modern map, nothing here can be “up to date”: every placement is an interpretive choice, and we document all of them.
Why Aeolia is Stromboli, why Circe's island is Monte Circeo cut loose from the mainland, why Ogygia is a custom island at the Pillars of Heracles — every landfall explained, with its degree of certainty.
Open the Odyssey mapComing soon — the roadmap for upcoming features and planned improvements will be published here.
A quick walk through where everything on Atlynx actually comes from. The website is brand new and I am constantly refining this section.
The dark background you see on the modern map is from CARTO, built on top of OpenStreetMap data. Satellite imagery is from Esri (with Maxar and Earthstar Geographics). The “Earth at Night” and “Blue Marble” styles come from NASA EOSDIS GIBS. The de jure (officially recognized borders) view uses the UN ClearMap.
The base polygons for the world — the outlines of every country — come from publicly available US Department of State data, which is in the public domain. However, they have been strongly altered to match a de-facto view of the world; they do not represent whatsoever the US view of the world. Those alterations are all hand-drawn in QGIS.
Most frontlines and faction-controlled areas (Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Myanmar, Sahel, CAR, and others) are hand-drawn by me based on slow reading of news, OSINT accounts, and cross-referencing reports. The Russia-Ukraine frontline is originally derived from DeepStateMap.live, a Ukrainian OSINT project that tracks the war with remarkable accuracy — used with attribution under their license, though it has now been modified and altered by my hand-drawing.
All polities, borders, territories, and sub-regions of the ancient world map are hand-drawn from scratch. A full write-up of the scholarly sources and decisions behind these borders is coming soon on this page — it's a long story and deserves its own section. Again, a bit of patience, but don't hesitate to reach out if you are interested and info is not out yet.
The glowing blue/orange shipping lanes on the trade view come from EMODnet — Human Activities (the European Marine Observation and Data Network), built from AIS ship-tracking data provided by CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) and ORBCOMM.
The foreign military bases data was compiled slowly from publicly available sources — news reporting, think-tank publications (SIPRI, IISS, etc.), official government statements, and OSINT research. It's my own aggregation, but I don't claim original data collection — it's synthesis work.
Each fleet panel lists its own source directly (news reports, USNI News, official announcements). Positions are approximate and updated periodically.
Standard ISO country flags come from the MIT-licensed country-flag-icons library. Flags for non-country entities (factions, alliances, NATO) are custom SVGs assembled from public sources.
The map itself runs on MapLibre GL and deck.gl for rendering, PMTiles for efficient vector data delivery, and Next.js for the site framework. The font is Geist by Vercel.
Plain-English version: Atlynx has no user accounts, doesn't collect personal data, doesn't run analytics, and doesn't set tracking cookies. The only data that exists is the basic server logs every website on the internet collects automatically. Details below.
No accounts, no email signups, no logins, no profiles, no preferences saved on a server. Nothing about you is stored in a database I control, because there is no such database.
When you visit, the site is served through Cloudflare, which logs the basic technical info every web request carries: IP address, the page requested, the time, your browser's user-agent string, and the referrer. Cloudflare keeps these logs for a short period (their policy, not mine) and uses them to serve the site, mitigate abuse, and protect against attacks. I look at aggregate traffic counts, not individual visitors.
Map data is served from third-party tile providers (CARTO/OpenStreetMap, Esri, NASA, the UN ClearMap) and from Cloudflare R2, where the custom border data lives. When your browser fetches a tile, the request goes to those providers and they may log it on their end. Their privacy policies apply to those interactions — provider links are listed in the Data & Sources section above. None of those requests contain anything beyond standard HTTP info (no name, no email, etc., because I don't have those things to send).
I don't set any cookies. I don't run advertising or third-party analytics. Cloudflare may automatically set a single technical cookie (__cf_bm) to distinguish humans from bots and protect the site from abuse — it's a security mechanism, not a tracking cookie, and is described in Cloudflare's cookie documentation. Your browser may also store map tiles in its own cache for performance — that's normal browser behavior and not something I control or read.
Under GDPR you have the right to ask what data is held about you, to request its deletion, and to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority (in Italy that's the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali). Since I don't hold a database of users, the practical answer is “there's nothing about you to access or delete on my side” — but if you want to confirm or request anything, write to me at [email protected] and I'll respond.
If anything changes — for example, if I add a mailing list, accounts, or any analytics tool — I'll update this section and note the change above in Past Updates. Last updated: 25 April 2026.
Have a suggestion, idea, question, or comment? Found something wrong on the map? Want to contribute? Reach out — all feedback is welcome.
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