ClearSpot adds an optional geological and meteorological risk block on the map. It is split into taxa you can toggle individually after enabling the group in the cog menu: seismic, tsunami context, volcanic unrest, flood response, tropical cyclones, tornado outlooks (US-centric), plus mapped baseline zones from OpenStreetMap hazard=* polygons.
Two rhythms: live feeds and slow baselines
Live feeds are polled on a short cadence from public APIs (USGS GeoJSON, GDACS lists, NHC CurrentStorms, SPC CSV). They answer: is something going on right now that should appear as a point or storm track on the map?
Baseline mapping crawls OSM less often and stores closed hazard polygons in the NZOI catalogue. That answers a different question: where do communities already document chronic or zonal exposure (flood plains, avalanche corridors, etc.) even when no headline event is active?
Read geography, not just dots
Example: the summit of Mont Blanc is not in an oceanic tsunami inundation plain. A live offshore centroid can still show up on global feeds because the feed is worldwide—so always cross-check context. ClearSpot is informational cartography; it is not an emergency alerting service, and the UI verdict words stay product tokens: clear, not clear, and all clear when nothing trips your sensitivity.
Where to tune visibility
Use the cog button: enable the parent checkbox, expand the list, and switch off any taxon you do not want drawn. The data sources page lists upstream licences and links.