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Air Pollution in World: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map

22 points by leksak 8mo ago

seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
Curious why this is here. It was my go to source for AQI data when I was living in Beijing, and I believe it is a Chinese site but the only evidence I have for that is that they have good Chinese data and the CN after AQI in their name. Beijing has cleaned up slot but I’m surprised to see bad air still in Hebei and Shandong.
- izacus 8mo ago
  There's plenty of crowd sourced data including from their own Gaia stations they ship to people in Europe as well. Why shouldn't this be here?
  - seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
    It just didn’t seem to be front page worthy but was there this morning.
- polotics 8mo ago
  Reckoning by the way some national borders are different on the map, the nationalismity of the website is indeed not in doubt. In particular looking at the Himalayas. It must be so tiring to have to toe such lines (or to toe the not-a-line! ...) in every serious endeavour I'm sorry for the people working on this good useful site.
  - seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
    Why? It’s useful it’s useful, it’s definitely useful in China. India has issues for sure with AQI, and China still has lots of problems obviously that they are making progress on.
    - polotics 8mo ago
      it's useful and good. And it makes me sad that the good chinese people working on this nice and useful chinese website have to draw lines of different widths and colours that make statements I am sure they themselves would never make about conquest and pain and suffering for the people behind the not-a-line, for example Bhutan on this map does not have a northern border with China, or at least dotted , not a border. Why oh why what is the point can't we just get along in the maybe one day less polluted air ? ? ?
      - seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
        Oh, ya, from that point of view they will use Chinese sanctioned maps which are definitely contested.
ikidd 8mo ago
Someone needs to fix how that popup appears right over your cursor and with no delay.
anonymousiam 8mo ago
Why no data from Las Vegas? Reno seems to have several data sources.

22 points by leksak 8mo ago

Curious why this is here. It was my go to source for AQI data when I was living in Beijing, and I believe it is a Chinese site but the only evidence I have for that is that they have good Chinese data and the CN after AQI in their name. Beijing has cleaned up slot but I’m surprised to see bad air still in Hebei and Shandong.

izacus 8mo ago
There's plenty of crowd sourced data including from their own Gaia stations they ship to people in Europe as well. Why shouldn't this be here?
- seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
  It just didn’t seem to be front page worthy but was there this morning.
polotics 8mo ago
Reckoning by the way some national borders are different on the map, the nationalismity of the website is indeed not in doubt. In particular looking at the Himalayas. It must be so tiring to have to toe such lines (or to toe the not-a-line! ...) in every serious endeavour I'm sorry for the people working on this good useful site.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
  Why? It’s useful it’s useful, it’s definitely useful in China. India has issues for sure with AQI, and China still has lots of problems obviously that they are making progress on.
  - polotics 8mo ago
    it's useful and good. And it makes me sad that the good chinese people working on this nice and useful chinese website have to draw lines of different widths and colours that make statements I am sure they themselves would never make about conquest and pain and suffering for the people behind the not-a-line, for example Bhutan on this map does not have a northern border with China, or at least dotted , not a border. Why oh why what is the point can't we just get along in the maybe one day less polluted air ? ? ?
    - seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
      Oh, ya, from that point of view they will use Chinese sanctioned maps which are definitely contested.

ikidd 8mo ago

Someone needs to fix how that popup appears right over your cursor and with no delay.

anonymousiam 8mo ago

Why no data from Las Vegas? Reno seems to have several data sources.