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New Data: Ukraine

Open magsyg opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

A new source source for Ukraine, the source mentioned in #542, does not seem to exist anymor

The source I found is: https://eco-city.org.ua/, but I am not sure if we can pull from this site, it says it is public but at the same time it looks like to be a private company behind it

magsyg avatar May 29 '20 11:05 magsyg

Nice find! So some things to look into:

  • [ ] Government-monitored stations? Perhaps contracted to a private company

  • [ ] Data not available through EEA

  • [ ] Data is ‘raw’ and reported in physical concentrations not in an 'Air Quality Index' or equivalent (e.g. AQI, PSI, API) format, with units (ug/m3 or ppm)

  • [ ] Data is at the ‘station-level' with geographic coordinates, not aggregated into a higher (e.g. city) level (coordinates found by clicking on each location)

  • [ ] Data is from measurements averaged between 10 minutes and 24 hours (seems to be hourly), and we know whether the timestamp is for the beginning or end of the measurement period

  • [ ] Programmatic access? (Protip: look at network calls as the page loads to look for internal APIs, files etc so you don't have to scrape data directly from html)

sruti avatar May 29 '20 18:05 sruti

  • [ ] According to the site: Public monitoring of air quality of Ukraine EcoCity is a social, ecological, independent project implemented by the non-profit public organization "Free Arduino", and is a port of the https://www.saveecobot.com/ group. I am not sure if this means we can use the data or not.
  • [x] Data is not available through EEA
  • [x] Data is raw
  • [x] Data is stationslevel
  • [x] Data looks to be hourly
  • [x] There is programatic access, but it looks like each station has a separate JSON file, and there is around 424 stations from here: https://eco-city.org.ua/public.json, and each station data can be found like this: https://eco-city.org.ua/public.json?id=526&timeShift=0

magsyg avatar Jun 04 '20 11:06 magsyg

Is it a private or state-owned Ukrainian company? An interesting and useful project, I would like to order the compliance Ukrainian company. If this company has the necessary certificates, then you can cooperate with it.

Assiente avatar Oct 02 '20 08:10 Assiente

According to https://eco-city.org.ua/article?id=4, it looks like EcoCity is a private company

magsyg avatar Oct 05 '20 11:10 magsyg

This is Ukraine's updated site. All the stations can be found here. I looks like the data can be found by using the station id number in the id query for the url. There are a lot of locations here that are not reporting to the EEA, and it looks like a valuable source. Looks like they are mostly measuring pm1, pm10, and pm2.5

majesticio avatar Dec 19 '22 23:12 majesticio

@majesticio given that this looks like its LCS and a private company, that why its not likely not included in EEA. Since its LCS and likely not regulatory we should prioritize accordingly.

russbiggs avatar Dec 19 '22 23:12 russbiggs