Monitor

The Monitor workspace is Hawkline's full-screen map. Ten layers in the grid, eleven static reference layers, and four side panels that complete what the map shows — a single watch station for seeing the world move, minute by minute, without stacking ten browser tabs.

Two registers

As in Intel, the layers read in two families.

The layer grid — ten layer toggles plus TICKER, top right. Six layers carry a continuously refreshed feed: SEIS (seismic), AIS (vessels), MIL (flights), ZONE (desk-authored convergence zones), PM (Polymarket events), NEWS (geolocated news). Three paint a structural background loaded once: TRADE (bilateral trade flows), POP (population), POWER (national power). The tenth, LIVE, carries no data at all: it pins rolling news channels to their studio cities and opens the broadcast in a window over the map. You switch on what you want to follow; several layers can coexist.

The last switch, TICKER, shows or hides the price ribbon at the bottom of the screen. On by default.

Reference layers — Reference. Static mapping of critical infrastructure: military bases, active conflict zones, ports, strategic waterways, airports, pipelines, submarine cables, nuclear sites, GPU datacenters, financial centers, irradiators. They are the backdrop against which the live layers get read.

One more layer is always on: the country layer, which colors national polygons by the day's Econ or News data. Covered in the country card.

Anatomy

The full-screen map. 3D globe or 2D flat, your call. Clicking a country opens its card in the top-right corner; clicking a layer object (earthquake, vessel, flight, zone, event, arc, reference point) opens an info card in the same place. Clicking empty space closes everything. Esc does the same.

The top bar. On the left: shortcuts to your account, to Intel and to the docs, then the reference-layers icon (dropdown), the Econ / News toggle, Globe / Flat, Topo (hypsometric relief), Fly (auto-recenters when you click an object). In the center: the UTC clock. On the right: the layer grid (SEIS · AIS · MIL · ZONE · PM · TRADE · POP · POWER · NEWS · LIVE · TICKER), then the side-panel selector (Feed · TDI · Desk · PM).

The ticker bar. Full-width band at the bottom, scrolling live FX prices — pair, price, spread, daily change. The TICKER dot reads green when it's live, dark red when you switch it off, and a hollow ring when the feed has nothing to serve (weekend, market closed).

The side panels. One panel open at a time, on the right, narrowing the map slightly. Four choices: Feed (compact news stream), TDI (operational divergences), Desk (the day's desk-authored convergence zones), PM (top Polymarket events).

The info cards. Stacked top-right, just left of the panel when one is open. Every live layer has its own card: a condensed read of the object you clicked, plus a link to the matching Intel view where one exists.

Shared conventions

Once you have these, they hold across every layer.

Importance pills. CRITICAL · HIGH · MEDIUM · LOW · INFO. Same wording, same colors as in Intel: what is CRITICAL on NEWS is CRITICAL on News.

Risk level (convergence zones). CRITICAL · HIGH · MEDIUM · LOW. Covered on ZONE.

Timestamps. Info cards show recency as a relative time (Just now, Nm ago, Nh ago, Nd ago). The clock in the center of the top bar is UTC.

Fly-to. With Fly on, clicking an object recenters the camera on it. On by default — switch it off to keep control of the view.

Layer refresh. NEWS, AIS and MIL refresh automatically every 30 seconds; SEIS every 5 minutes (the USGS cadence); ZONE and PM every 2 minutes; TRADE, POP and POWER load once (annual or structural data), and so do the reference layers. The LIVE channel registry is read at page load: on-air status doesn't move again until you reload.

Where to start

Switch on NEWS to place what's breaking on the globe, open the Feed panel to read it in detail, then stack the operational layers (SEIS, AIS, MIL) depending on what you want to cross-check. The desk's convergence zones (ZONE) and the Desk panel carry the day's editorial read: that's the natural entry point when the question is where to look.