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> According to the World Health Organization, up to ⅓ of the global population suffers from allergic rhinitis, Has anyone yet figured out why so many humans suffer from an allergy to many natural plants which we have lived around for millions of years? It looks like the first documented case of Hayfever was March 1819[1], and at the time it was considered a very unusual and rare affliction. When and why has it now be…
I think this should have been the link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/going-b... It's a new initiative with multiple new API's: Solar API, Air Quality API, Pollen API. And that link gives an overview for them all.
Solar I sort of get since I don't think anyone does it the scale like Google Sunroof, but not sure what the added value is for Google to create the APIs for Air Quality and Pollen? There are service providers and models that do these already at global scale (e.g. https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/air-quality & https://silam.fmi.fi/ ).
> According to the World Health Organization, up to ⅓ of the global population suffers from allergic rhinitis, Has anyone yet figured out why so many humans suffer from an allergy to many natural plants which we have lived around for millions of years? It looks like the first documented case of Hayfever was March 1819[1], and at the time it was considered a very unusual and rare affliction. When and why has it now be…
It seems that we are shielding ourselves ever more from exposure to nature. Which has tremendous benefits, but allergies seem to play into that.
As for food, I have now seen too many people cure themselves from hayfever and other allergies by ditching carbs, or other significant dietary changes. No accident if you ask me. And would line up somewhat with industrialization of food production post 1800 or so.
I’m a bit surprised to see a single geodata theme packaged as a whole “thing.” And goodness the marketing fluff is quite repetitive given they have so little to talk about. Call me jaded but it feels like someone’s really announcing, “I shipped something! Give me my promotion!” > Our Pollen API is based on a model that calculates the seasonality and daily amount of pollen grains on a 1x1 km2 grid in over 65 countries…
I'm disappointed as i thought they'd use actual sensors instead of guessing using old data.
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I'm disappointed as i thought they'd use actual sensors instead of guessing using old data.
I feel like once upon a time, "blanket the world with a mesh of pollen sensors" would absolutely have been Google's approach.
That would make it harder to sell the data though so why bother ?
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I feel like once upon a time, "blanket the world with a mesh of pollen sensors" would absolutely have been Google's approach.
Or use an open-data approach from the millions of hobby/scientific weather stations. That would make it harder to sell the data though so why bother ?
I’m a bit surprised to see a single geodata theme packaged as a whole “thing.” And goodness the marketing fluff is quite repetitive given they have so little to talk about. Call me jaded but it feels like someone’s really announcing, “I shipped something! Give me my promotion!” > Our Pollen API is based on a model that calculates the seasonality and daily amount of pollen grains on a 1x1 km2 grid in over 65 countries…