What this is, who makes it, and where the design comes from.
Aion is a time globe: a globe you can turn, showing what the Earth looked like at a moment you choose. You move the time and the map moves with it — ice caps, coastlines, and places where something happened.
It is a private project by Macel Brilman, built and maintained in a private home lab. There is no company behind it, no advertising network and no business model.
Aion itself existed before this; what was borrowed is the visual design of WorldLens - the near-black colour palette, the capitals with wide letter spacing, the outlined pill buttons, and the name "Take a tour". The source code says so itself (theme.css literally calls itself "worldlens restyle" and quotes what exactly was taken over), and it is repeated here because borrowing without saying so is not style.
Every fact on the map should carry a source. Where a source is missing or uncertain, that should be stated rather than left out.
The map combines five self-hosted sources, each for a layer of its own: