Switch to better data source

Question

Switch to better data source

marcoow opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Unfortunately the data that we get from openaq.org is relatively poor. We should switch to a different data source as breethe only has real value if it shows good, up-to-date data.

Niklas Long · Answer 1 · Thu Mar 05 2020 19:02:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Plan/Todo:

CSV processing from EEA + test #191
implement source module + tests #200
refactor: use {lat, lon} instead of lat, lon throughout code base.
refactor Breethe module to use Source + tests

Mar High · Answer 2 · Fri Jul 24 2020 23:01:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@marcoow will this increase which locations are supported? I get an error for anything outside of Europe.

Marco Otte-Witte · Answer 3 · Mon Jul 27 2020 15:01:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

So we had OpenAQ before moving to the EEA data. OpenAQ data was relatively poor so this is a big improvement. Of course, the EEA data covers Europe only and we'd have to connect a separate data source for the US. I think covering Europe and US would likely to be sufficient for now. I'll create a follow-up issue though since the original goal we had with this has been reached.