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Google Offers New Treasure Trove of Air Quality Data To Researchers (techcrunch.com) 14

Posted by BeauHD from the more-the-merrier dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google has employed its network of street-view vehicles to also measure street-level air quality in recent years, through an initiative it calls “Project Air View.” Today, it’s making available to scientists and researcher organizations more of the resulting data from that ongoing initiative. The company is releasing an updated version of its air quality data set that includes information collected with partner Aclima’s environmental sensors gathered between 2017 and 2018. The combined data cache includes info from the SF Bay and San Joaquin Valley area, originally starting in 2016, along with the additional two years’ worth of data for those areas as well as for other parts of California, and other major cities, including Houston, Salt Lake City, Copenhagen, London and Amsterdam.

All told, Google’s mapping data set for air quality now includes info covering more than 140,000 miles and 7,000 hours of combined driving time spanning 2016 through 2018. That’s a significant base upon which to build a study of the trajectory of air quality changes over time, and Google plans to not only continue this program, but expand it with additional coverage for more cities globally, including in Asia, Africa and South America.

Google Offers New Treasure Trove of Air Quality Data To Researchers

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    • How much CO2 was emitted by the vehicles driving around collecting this information?

      I was going to mod this funny, but… Generally, measuring something takes a small fraction of the energy of “something”. And in this case, I think the CO2 information is a free benefit. That is my answer to your direct question.

      Going back to the title, “Air Quality”, which is NOT connected to CO2, I think it is nice that Google is sharing this data.

  • Did Google get permission to steal that air? Did they pay cities a fee?

  • by Anonymous Coward writes:

    They would release this data publicly and not hide it behind 20 questions about who are you and what are you going to do with it.

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