YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Radiation Map of the World

23 points slater 3 days ago 8 comments

Stitch4223 1 hour ago | parent

The changing scales and meaning while zooming in and out makes it hard to derive conclusion from these measurements.

Sometimes it looks like somebody just used a more sensitive or uncalibrated device or is carrying a nuclear warhead around during an entire route of measuring.

phyzome 42 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, and I was hoping that you could still look at high-level averaging over a country ("maybe the bad data will average out") but when I looked at a few hotspots it appears that those all came down to a couple uncalibrated-looking devices.

Not very useful or interesting in its current form, unfortunately.

zhivota 6 minutes ago | parent

Yeah I checked some tracks and it basically looked like the longer someone spent in a place, the higher the readings got. Maybe when the device doesn't get a lot of ventilation it starts to misread.

DivingForGold 45 minutes ago | parent

Just more NAG SCREENS !

defrost 35 minutes ago | parent

That's not a radiation map of Australia ( https://radiaverse.com/country/au#2.82/-27.05/133.28 )

This is a radiation map of Australia: https://www.ga.gov.au/bigobj/GA13928.pdf ( gridded data available for d/load )

The first being a very few submitted tracks of handheld click counters with limited accuracy and no reporting of the peaks across the breadth of gamma spectrum; the second being a decades long high resolution 256 channel 40 litre crystal pack calibrated, normalised, geophysical survey of the entire continent.

bluecollarworke 24 minutes ago | parent

> These Terms constitute a contractual agreement between you and RadiaCode. By accessing or using www.radiacode.com (the “Website”), you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are not of eighteen years of age, or do not agree to the Terms, then you do not have permission to use the Website, and you must exit our Website immediately and uninstall the Application to the extent applicable.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, because if you are, you are VERBOTEN according to the terms of service.

schiffern 17 minutes ago | parent

  >THE WORLD’S RADIATION MAP, MEASURED BY ITS PEOPLE
I'm waiting for the one by others, but thanks.

woodpanel 14 minutes ago | parent

Curious as to why Germany seems to be the only large country with almost full coverage.

If all the data is crowdsourced it’s probably the German Atom-Angst