project:ch_euro_geigermaps

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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

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