Air Pollution & Air Quality Information
Air Pollution & Air Quality Information
This is interesting, especially for people who have asthma or air pollution-related illness:
https://aqicn.org/map/world/
http://aqicn.org/faq/2015-07-28/air-quality-widget-new-improved-feed/
@mwittig Does Air Quality looks a bit like openweather?
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said in Air Pollution & Air Quality Information:
Does Air Quality looks a bit like openweather?
No, but the are frameworks which combine AQi with weather data services. Have look at WeatherMan, for example. It also provides a CLI, so you can give a try easily and let us know about your findings. The provider id to use is “aqicn”
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
Another good site:
@temp As far as I can see it is mainly data for indoor air quality from users who share the data of their speck air sensor. Indoor air quality does not correlate necessarily with the outside air qualility. They probably show high peaks when the vacuum cleaner is used.
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
A similar approach which besides measurement also promises to improve ambient air quality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/882633450/wynd-the-smartest-air-purifier-for-your-personal-s?
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
I’m currently working on a pollution and weather plugin for Hong Kong.
You could use that as a base if you wanted to add weather and pollution information from other APIs
I had a look at the aqicn API and it looks like it would be very easy to provide a corresponding plugin.
The biggest advantage: It’s free and I found no good alternative.
A big disadvantage of this API is, that there are lots of uncovered areas all over Germany.
For me it wouln’t be useful because there are no usable measurements in Saxony.
It is a bit of a irony that one must use a chinese service to obtain air quality data throughout Europe. Politicians like to to talk about “open data”, but the progress in providing overarching access to public data still leaves to be desired in many areas. To some extent the data for Germany is provided by the UBA on their web site, but as far as I know they don’t provide APIs to their data services - https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luftbelastung/aktuelle-luftdaten>. For unknown reasons the UBA web site hides some of the measured values. For example, it is not possible to access PM2,5. Beyond UBA, some federal states run their provide data services, but altogether it is still a patchwork.
Regarding AQICN, my only concern is that it does not provide the actual measurement data for each air pollutant (typically ppm or µg/m³), but it provides an AQI (air quality index) which is not commonly used in Europe as far as I can tell. The AQI has been originally defined by the US EPA and is used as part of the AirNow data service in the US - https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi
Note, beyond, AQICN deviates from the US scales in some areas. Thus it is important to lookup the information at their site. See the information on Ozone AQI, for example.
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
@saxnpaule said in Air Pollution & Air Quality Information:
For me it wouln’t be useful because there are no usable measurements in Saxony.
That’s because Saxony does not seem to provide reasonable access to the existing measurement data. If you’re concerned about this you can contact the AIL of the SMUL, directly. Contact Data can be found on their web site - https://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/umwelt/luft/3649.htm
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
Yes, I also had a look at the UBA data and saw that there is no API.
There is also a very promising provider https://breezometer.com but it’s only free for one month.
I also saw that there is a possibility to get data for Saxony. But I think a more generic version would be better.
