Landmark Spotter

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“What’s that mountain?”

The chain of peaks below the wing. The ribbon of coastline ahead. The lake glinting in the sunset. Window-seat travelers ask what is that dozens of times per flight. With Skyty’s Landmark Spotter, the answer is one tap away.

A curated database, ranked by relevance

Skyty bundles roughly 6 800 points of interest worldwide — every category that’s actually visible from a window seat:

• Mountains — major peaks, by elevation
• Volcanoes — active and notable historic
• Lakes — large enough to spot from altitude
• Islands & archipelagos — including remote outposts
• Coasts & capes — distinctive coastline features
• Cities & landmarks — major buildings, towers, monuments
• Rivers — when they form recognizable patterns from above

Each POI is ranked. When you query a location, Skyty returns the most relevant ones nearby — a 4 000 m mountain beats a 200 m hill, even if the hill is closer.

How it works

POIs live as a small JSON file inside the app (~600 KB gzipped). When you tap “What’s around me?”, Skyty runs a bounding-box prefilter, computes haversine distance to candidates, applies the relevance ranking, and shows you the answer in milliseconds.

Live or curious?

Use Landmark Spotter two ways:

• Live, mid-flight — point at the window, ask what’s there.
• Curious, on the ground — drag the map anywhere, see what travelers passing through would notice.

Coming next

Constellations and astronomy POIs (v1.2), then events — rocket launches, volcanic activity, auroras — surfaced when you’re near them.