Safecast Open Radiation and Air Quality Map (opens in new tab)

Not just these icons -- the entire site is both jam-packed with information and nearly unreadable.

I think this might be an example of when an engineer or a developer design the user-facing portions of a system. A deeply technical perspective, at a complete loss in how to relate to an average outsider.

It really looks like an exercise in obfuscation.

I don’t see the information overload issue in this Safecast map. If anything, it lacks info (a good air quality map should at least come with wind indicators, like earth.nullschool).

However, it seems to have limited coverage, which makes it useless for many.

If you scroll to Australia you can see the data coverage is largely occassional driving about on a few roads.

It's interesting they don't include, as a baseline reference, the near complete Australian coverage by 256 channel radiometric data (available for free download): https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/disciplines/geophysi...

Such datasets are relatively common across the globe and none that I'm aware of appear to be included.

Their devices appear to be all total count gieger types which don't seperate out energy bands or have much accuracy - ie. "good enough" for coarse results, not that great for identifying radon Vs ??? as a source.

Especially given the half life of what was released there is 8 days.

You’re looking at the wrong poisonous transmissions, check the map that shows concentrations of misleading reporting and needless panic.