Safecast Tilemap —data visualization platform
Realtime visualization of radiation level sensors
Safecast was founded in the immediate aftermath of the 3/11 Fukushima nuclear disaster as an international non-profit organization. Our goal is to empower citizens with useful, accessible and independent data about their environment.
Today, we maintain the largest open dataset of background radiation measurements ever collected — over 57 million readings to date (as of November 2016) and growing daily. All of the data collected by our volunteers is available through an open, free an open-sourced public platform of all submitted radiation readings.
We also provide access to a map enabling a clear data visualization available on browser, desktop and smartphone. As it is the case for all Safecast projects and in respect to our licencing guidelines, the source code for open-sourced on Github.
Mission: We needed a swift way to display Safecast’s Pointcast realtime sensors on the tilemap. For this purpose we created a simple Wordpress based platform which pulls these measurements from the API, enables monitoring and enriching of the metadatas and generates a feed consumed by the tilemap.
Role and responsibilities: Coding and maintenance.
Stack: Javascript, Wordpress, GitHub, Slack.
Year: Since 2014
If you are interested in learning more about Safecast, feel free to read the other case-study which explains with more details how we successfully deployed our sensor network, some problems that we faced and what are now aiming for.
