On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:42:37 +0200 (CEST), Stefan de Konink <ste...@konink.de> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Forgive my scientific ignorance, but are actual measurements even static >> enough - I mean, if I measure radiation X at a certain place, is there >> reason to believe that it will (in the absence of catastrophic events) >> be more or less unchanged one month in the future? > > It depends on the decay time. I just wanted to reply we would require some > sort of temporal database to actually facilitate this. > > So to answer your point. If there is an actual measurement of lets say N > amount of becquerels, you can be pretty sure it is more fixed then your > typical roads. And if it is dangerous all depends on the type of > radiation it emits :) > > So if we take normal uranium it will only be alpha radiation, > unless you eat, breath in dust etc. it is not harmful. (So you know > exactly the reason why you shouldn't eat mushrooms in East-Europe) > > To equip your GPS device (the satelite already has a detector ;) with a > Geigercounter will probably give nice information, usefulness within OSM > -> 0. Just fork it into a thing like the altitude maps. ORM ;) > > > Stefan > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Exactly my point. -- Brgds Aun Johnsen via Webmail
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