2y ago

An Interactive Map of Light Pollution

Light Pollution Atlas 2006, 2016 and 2020

In case you you want to prepare yourself for the upcoming comet "Nishimura" or other celestial events 🌝

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I wanted to add this map as an overlay map in Osmand to find good camping spots for night sky viewing. I have the USGS land management data as an overlay, and wanted both. Never got around to it, but now maybe I will. I see there's an OSM version of this map, I wonder if I could just download it and load it in?
- I haven't worked with OSM data before, but you can take a look at the source of the website.
I knew about the high levels of light pollution in the Netherlands and Belgium but Moscow is what really surprised me on this map. I never would've expected it to be so high. Looks like it has the highest levels outside of China.
Very nice! But I had a weird problem after opening it for the first time on mobile (solved forcing the desktop view) and it's missing a legend to know what colours represent, especially when selecting the 2014-2020 trend.