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Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
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defrost | parent | next
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.

DJBunnies | parent | next
I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
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tialaramex | parent | next
It's interesting that Crocodile Dundee doesn't actually use the "That's not X, this is X" pairing [Dundee says "That" not "This" both times] but that's what we end up remembering and what imitators do to reference that line.

This one isn't on Wikipedia's list (at time of writing) unlike "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'" or "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

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NoPicklez | parent | next
I was surprised to zoom in on Olympic Dam and not see anything measured given it is a uranium mine. But I guess its measured by the people
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blincoln | parent | next
That's incredible! Thank you for sharing.

I apologize if this is answered in the PDF, but I couldn't find an explanation there - any idea why fairly large chunks were omitted from the map? Some of them seem like population centers, others look like nature preserves.

bluecollarworke | parent | next
> 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.

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Stitch4223 | parent | next
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.

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ethanj8011 | parent | next
> Radiaverse turns those tracks into one shared map, with the places worth knowing about described by the people who found them.

This Claude sentence would be greatly improved by deleting everything after the comma. That clause adds nothing informationally and in some sense is using a very weird definition of describe and found.

schiffern | parent | next

  >THE WORLD’S RADIATION MAP, MEASURED BY ITS PEOPLE
I'm waiting for the one by others, but thanks.
DivingForGold | parent | next
Just more NAG SCREENS !
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RonanSoleste | parent | next
3 popups about consent later i just closed the site
leonidasrup | parent | next
Many interesting high radiation places are missing in the map, Ramsar - Iran, beaches in south Kerala - India.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181016-why-india-wants-to-...

assimpleaspossi | parent | next
Only 403 contribute in the USA. Is that enough to be of value now?
jareklupinski | parent | next
watch out for this hotspot in nyc!

https://radiaverse.com/map#15.65/40.782/-73.974

who knew we kept such things just lying around :)

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clara04 | parent | next
I recall there were studies about the dissemination of radiative remnants from nuclear disasters traveling across oceans to the globe. It'd be nice to have some kind of historical view on the map to monitor the process over past periods and future.
_false | parent | next
this makes no sense, but at least it's provocative and it gets the people going
laxisOp | parent | next
This is cool. What are the other cool maps exists like this?
Noaidi | parent | next
If anyone want to fund a homeless guy buying one of these devices to use while he drive around the United States I could sure add a lot of contribution to the science. Let me know. I would love to help with this and be somehow useful in a society that finds me useless.
groestl | parent | next
> Keeping the map honest

I love me an honest map, it's absolutely load bearing for me.

dreamcompiler | parent | next
The detectors they use seem to measure only gamma. Not alpha or beta or neutrons. Which is not surprising since cheap handheld detectors usually only measure gamma.

This map is entertaining but it's not terribly useful scientifically.

Onavo | parent | next
Any more affordable alternatives to the radiacode scintillator devices?
Zeruxe | parent | next
This is quite interesting.
woodpanel | parent | next
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

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