[OSM-talk] radioactivity

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/8/10 Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:21 PM, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> isn't the issue here that radioactivity is like height, i.e. a
>> smoothly-varying value that exists everywhere and is typically
>> represented as gridded data (which gets converted to contours for
>> display).
>
> Average yearly rainfall, air pollution, demographics,... The list goes on.

Out of OSM scope applied directly, but then for demographics you have
populated places which we do map, for elevation we have natural=peaks
which we map so it perhaps also makes sense to map places of extreme
air pollution or extreme radiation i.e. the sources of them as was
suggested.  I can't imagine these being useful for navigation though,
unless your car gps has a geiger counter... or the radiation is at a
level where it can erase pictures from your analogue camera, flip bits
on harddisks (and eventually produce heat on your skin).

Cheers