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I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-ki
by mdorazio 7y ago
I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-kilometer precision, especially in suburb areas where monitoring stations tend to be sparse.
- lisiado 7y agoThere is a project in Germany which collects the data of stations you can build yourself with an esp8266 and a sensor. https://luftdaten.info/ https://luftdaten.info/
- hawski 7y agoThanks for the link. Users outside of Germany already use it. I think I will participate. For some time I was thinking about an amateur network of air pollution sensors, that seems to be it. Is there something with more reach in Europe or at least Poland (where I'm at)?
- lisiado 7y agoYes I just realized that it's already in use outside of Germany as I visited the website. I will set it up myself as well.
- 0ld 7y agoWhen there are big air pollution problems, people and municipalities usually install their own monitors. Say, I live in a region with a very bad air quality in winter, and in the vicinity of my house there're at least 4 devices I can (and do) check - 2 from airly.eu (within 200m, installed by the village) and 2 from luftdaten.info (within ~1km, installed by the locals) and one mine