So only Iceland and Estonia are doing well enough. Others are cooked.
missesthecrux on
It’s not particularly insightful data because it’s very location-dependent. Maybe at a subdivision level it’d be more useful.
Kevin9O7 on
that’s very misleading for example in Turkey only like 4 cities have such a bad air quality and the rest are pretty clean
Spoksparkare on
I’d like to see yellow split into more colours.
DJpesto on
This varies wildly with the weather and location. I.e. Copenhagen sometimes has poor air quality when exhaust from coal power plants from central Europe gets caught in certain weather phenomena.
PanickyFool on
Diesel was a mistake, news at 11.
TastyYellowBees on
So I’m safe moving from the UK countryside to a house next to a coal plant in Estonia?
Novat1993 on
I have a feeling Berlin may be worse than the Italian countryside. Just a hunch. If you’re gonna condense a whole cointry’s air quality to a single number. Maybe it is better to just compare city center of the Capitol instead.
lutel on
Now check benzopiren pollution
snakesnake9 on
Yay, my native Estonia is good at something.
KunashG on
You seriously want me to believe that the nordics (except Denmark) have mediocre air quality when literally 80%+ of each country is uninhabited wilderness and mountains?
Something about these figures isn’t adding up. Biased data? Something that isn’t written directly that’s an important caveat or context?
Let’s try a little harder here.
leaflock7 on
“Only countries shows in **blue** match this”
and they have no BLUE . they have purple , but no blue
It’s way too far from being dense enough ! Everyone in the EU knows that Germany shitty coal power plants are currently spready a huge cloud of CO2 and small particles accros all central Europe.
Poly_and_RA on
This isn’t practically useful — there’s like 10 square miles in Norway that has average air-quality in the yellow range; thus the entire country is colored yellow — including places that are literally a thousand miles from the nearest city with questionable air-quality.
baeverkanyl on
The groups have 2,19,15, 6, and 1 countries in the them.
Finland has 5.2, Sweden has 5.3, and Russia has 9.8. Same colour.
Having one group, how small it may be, for the <= 5 that’s good, considering it’s the quality guideline.
But the second and third groups should have been split up into smaller groups.
kingralph7 on
Have a heart for diesel.
A real bumper sticker I saw, on a car.
Maximum-Warthog2368 on
I don’t know how accurate this data is but why Austria has worse air quality than other Western Europe?
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Main data source: [iqair.com](http://iqair.com/)
Specific Data: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cf2tneH3032YDcnigjknZ47Jz9NJRSsvungKzWZeH_M/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cf2tneH3032YDcnigjknZ47Jz9NJRSsvungKzWZeH_M/edit?usp=sharing)
Tool: Adobe Illustrator
So just be as far away from Bosnia as possible?
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Iceland
^(*without any volcanoes getting rowdy)
So only Iceland and Estonia are doing well enough. Others are cooked.
It’s not particularly insightful data because it’s very location-dependent. Maybe at a subdivision level it’d be more useful.
that’s very misleading for example in Turkey only like 4 cities have such a bad air quality and the rest are pretty clean
I’d like to see yellow split into more colours.
This varies wildly with the weather and location. I.e. Copenhagen sometimes has poor air quality when exhaust from coal power plants from central Europe gets caught in certain weather phenomena.
Diesel was a mistake, news at 11.
So I’m safe moving from the UK countryside to a house next to a coal plant in Estonia?
I have a feeling Berlin may be worse than the Italian countryside. Just a hunch. If you’re gonna condense a whole cointry’s air quality to a single number. Maybe it is better to just compare city center of the Capitol instead.
Now check benzopiren pollution
Yay, my native Estonia is good at something.
You seriously want me to believe that the nordics (except Denmark) have mediocre air quality when literally 80%+ of each country is uninhabited wilderness and mountains?
Something about these figures isn’t adding up. Biased data? Something that isn’t written directly that’s an important caveat or context?
Let’s try a little harder here.
“Only countries shows in **blue** match this”
and they have no BLUE . they have purple , but no blue
https://waqi.info/#/c/40.677/14.056/3z
Alot more detailed if anyone’s interested
It’s way too far from being dense enough ! Everyone in the EU knows that Germany shitty coal power plants are currently spready a huge cloud of CO2 and small particles accros all central Europe.
This isn’t practically useful — there’s like 10 square miles in Norway that has average air-quality in the yellow range; thus the entire country is colored yellow — including places that are literally a thousand miles from the nearest city with questionable air-quality.
The groups have 2,19,15, 6, and 1 countries in the them.
Finland has 5.2, Sweden has 5.3, and Russia has 9.8. Same colour.
Having one group, how small it may be, for the <= 5 that’s good, considering it’s the quality guideline.
But the second and third groups should have been split up into smaller groups.
Have a heart for diesel.
A real bumper sticker I saw, on a car.
I don’t know how accurate this data is but why Austria has worse air quality than other Western Europe?