Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Crowdsourcing Radiation

Tina Rosenberg has an interesting piece in the NYTimes refers to several sites that are crowdsourcing radiation levels in the wake of the tsunami/nuclear catastrophe in Japan.

Here's the view at JapanStatus.org, which posts reported radiation levels:

And here's the view from RDTN.org, which differentiates the colored markers by the entity providing the reading, not by the actual reported radiation level, which is a little confusing and less than informative graphically:

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