We are getting a lot of questions, both at info@safecast.org and through the Safecast group from concerned people – they all try to understand some aspect of radiation or another. And of course, many people ask similar questions, but without doubt the most often asked question is “Is [something] safe?” or a variation of it.…
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GLC hits over a mIllion points!
Global Survey Corp., which goes by the initials “GLC,” has been mapping Japan’s roads since 2005. Their data is used in many car navi systems, as well as for quite a few specialized applications. For instance, since 2009, the company has been measuring and mapping electromagnetic wave intensity to help customers optimize the placement of…
Global Giving Matching Donations to Safecast! (again!)
Our friends at Global Giving did this last year and it was incredibly helpful for us, so they’ve decided to do it again. From March 1st to March 15th they will be matching donations 100%, and on March 11th they will match 200%! The trick is there is a limited amount of matching funds available…
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Safecast iOS App Updated
A massive update to the iOS app just went live in the app store. If you don’t have it already you can download it here. In addition to the full Safecast database, there are new map layers showing natural background (and subtractions) as well as interpolations. Combined with your iPhone’s GPS this continues to function…
New Safecasters joined in Chichibu
We are happy to announce that local citizens from Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture have joined the Safecast volunteer network. (Mr. Tateno, Mr. Sekine and Mr. Noguchi from the left) Chichibu has beautiful countryside and is surrounded by mountain ranges. In winter the mountains are covered by snow. I found the scenery very attractive, and somewhat…
Tokyo Hackathon Roundup
Earlier this year we held what will hopefully be the first of many Safecast Hackathons. Since Safecast has such a fantastic team of volunteers working together, we thought it might be beneficial to bring everyone together in one city for a week to hash through ideas and cross things off the todo lists. While the…
The GeoSense Map Platform
Along with Tony DeVincenzi, MIT Media Lab student Samuel Luescher developed the GeoSense mapping platform to help solve many of the problems we were having visualizing our data set. Samuel recently gave a short presentation about the platform that shows just how powerful it is. We’re incredibly lucky to have brilliant developers like this on…
Citizen science and air quality monitoring in Tokyo
As you may have recently heard, the city of Beijing recently went off the scale for established measurements of the amount of particulate matter in the air. As of the 13th of January the U.S. embassy, the only publicly reporting monitoring station in the city, measured a concentration of 886 micrograms per cubic meter (To give…
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Tokyo Hackathon underway
We kicked off the first hackathon of 2013 today in Tokyo. In many ways today was a planning session for what the rest of the week will look like. We ran through the issues lists on several key Safecast repositories on GitHub and created some milestones of things we’d like to solve this week, as…
sneak peek of things to come
This is happening, stay tuned 今日届きました。もうしばらくお待ちください。