TIAG.App — The Interactive Abundance Globe · the living map of The Independent American Gardeners community. Spin it. Search it. Customize it. Build yours.
TIAG.App
The Interactive Abundance Globe by The Independent American Gardener · TIAG Community
Check your internet connection and try again. The globe streams satellite imagery and terrain from the web — no sign-in or token required.
Building your planet… terrain, oceans & atmosphere
Click on the globe to place a location
Route
TIAG.App
⚠ You control what's public. Every detail toggled ON below is publicly visible to the entire TIAG community. You are solely responsible for switching OFF anything you want kept private.
My details — toggle ON = shown publicly
My assets & project sites — places you own, from every map
By click = click any spot on the globe to drop a pin. Coords = type exact latitude & longitude. Import = bring in a whole spreadsheet/CSV at once.
Create containers — Groups hold Folders; Folders hold your places
Community = scaffold a new TIAG community (anchor + components). Group & Folder = containers for organizing your pins, just like folders on your computer.
🔄 Visualize your local barter & trade routes — draw the flow of goods, seeds & skills between two places, one-way or both ways. Duplicates merge automatically.
Your routes
Photorealistic 3D = the same real trees / buildings / terrain as Google Earth. Easiest way (no Google key): in your Cesium ion Asset Depot click “Add to my assets” on Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles (asset 2275207), use an ion token with assets:read (Data tab), then click Photorealistic 3D above.
Or get a key at Google Cloud → Maps Platform, enable the Map Tiles API, and paste it here. Stored in this browser only.
Drag to spin, scroll to zoom, right-drag (or ctrl-drag) to tilt — just like Google Earth Pro.
🛡 Admin — locked
This page controls the LIVE TIAG Community feed — the hard-wired map every visitor and member sees (communities, hubs, regions, members). Only the admin password unlocks it; the password is verified on the server, never stored here.
Members can browse the LIVE feed but never change it. Their own places, folders & routes live in their workspaces on their own device — like KML files in Google Earth.
🛡 Admin — LIVE feed control
Edit the 🌐 TIAG Community (LIVE) workspace freely all day — every visitor's map only changes when you Publish changes to live. Drafts never reach the live site.
🏘 Community qualifications
📥 Map submissions
Export for Google Earth Pro, or back up / restore your dashboard.
Bakes only the current workspace into a clean globe-dashboard.html. For tiag.app: upload the folder & share the link ending in ?view (read-only). For the member ZIP: drop this file into the Globe folder and re-zip.
🔒 Private workspaces (members/contributors with real locations) are blocked from Publish and excluded from the standalone export — they can never leak into a public file.
One self-contained .html with all your places/folders/routes embedded — copy it to any computer and double-click to launch (needs internet for the map). Your work also auto-saves in this browser.
Copies an <iframe> snippet that embeds a clean, read-only globe (no panel/sign-in) into any web page. Uses ?embed&view — point it at your live tiag.app URL once deployed.
Loads a PII-free members file (coarse location + tier only) into a private TIAG Members workspace. No names/emails/addresses are ever stored. Don't publish this workspace.
Live sync — active once a backend is connected (set TIAG_BACKEND.base in the code). Until then it explains setup; use the import button above.
Connecting…
The globe already works without a token. A valid ion token (one with asset access) swaps in Cesium World Terrain so oceans get the live water shimmer.
🎓 The Independence Series — 17 weekly webinars becoming 17 self-paced courses on regenerative homesteading & self-sufficiency, taught by Jamon Mysliwiec.
📚 Family Independence Vault — the offline, printable homeschool curriculum across five pillars: Food, Water, Shelter, Surplus & Family Resilience. Works with no internet; progress saves on this device.
📅 TIAG Calendar — a revolving 12-month view that always leads with this month, merging the TIAG community calendar with your own. Market days, workshops & webinars in one place.
Upcoming near you
TIAG data — synced with the TIAG LIVE tab
Editing & routes
Trade-route style
⬆ Bulk import locations
Paste a CSV (or copy straight from a spreadsheet) with a header row — each row becomes a place. Give it latitude & longitude (fastest) or an address (auto-geocoded). A folder column auto-creates toggleable folders.
Your profile
Your full member profile — tier, region, avatar, connections — syncs from your TIAG membership once connected.
Choose an icon
Pick an emoji, or upload a small image — it’s resized to a tidy icon and stored with your data.
📝 Change request / suggestion
Know a farm, garden, market or community that belongs on the LIVE map — or something that needs fixing? Send it in. An admin reviews every request before anything changes.
📖 Directory
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🌐 Community profile
🔗 Connect
Draw a barter / trade route from here to another place. Pick an existing place, or type a new address / coordinates to create one.
Add any labels you like — “Why I love it”, “Owner”, “Practices”, “Visited”… every place can be totally different.
Market days, workshops, gatherings — title + date (+ optional time). Visitors get an “Add to calendar” link; upcoming ones show under the 📅 This week filter.
Set a TIAG role to make this a community anchor, hub, market, or crew. The 4 demo hubs (Food Forest, Marketplace, Farm, Garden) must be Certified to count toward a community’s Official status.
