You may not, there are communities though that might. People who live in the “blast radius” of a polluting entity like a refinery might want to aggregate data o

You may not, there are communities though that might. People who live in the “blast radius” of a polluting entity like a refinery might want to aggregate data over time to see if there’s a slow leak or whether the entity is emitting excessively at night which I recently learned is quite common. Knowing the instantaneous value at one point is not as valuable as owning the aggregate data over a region over time. So owning the data allows contributing to such aggregates which allow speaking truth to power about the reality of particulates in the air. Measuring air pollution is increasingly becoming a political act.