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CH Euro Geigermaps
In the wake of Fukushima the Japanese government did not publish enough radiation data. Makers around @kotobuki and @freaklabs began uploading DIY geiger counter measurements to Pachube, an open sensor data platform. The website http://japan.failedrobot.com/ created by the same people uses this data to display a map with sensor readings. More and more citizens began measuring such data. The crowd sourced radiation data is probably not as accurate as official measurements, but a lot more information is available today than before Geigermaps.
Advantage:
- distributed, common platform enables collaboration
- open, everybody can contribute by tagging feeds appropriately
Problems:
- take care to use the same units (we had false “alarms” because of this)
- unclear legal situation, government data is published, but no license to re-publish/use the data
Data
- https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/tagesmittelwerte.shtml#tabelle
(Source, scraped with C# job running on my Laptop twice a day) - https://pachube.com/feeds?q=tamberg+NEOC+NADAM&status=all
(Published to sensor value platform, feeds tagged with sensor:type=radiation and location) - http://japan.failedrobot.com/europe/
(Uploaded by @haiyan, seems to be down)
Team
Links
- Access/download/source?
- Blog? Forum thread?
- Tools
Back to project overview: http://makeopendata.ch/doku.php?id=project:home