Instead of a heat map, it might be interesting to have satellite imagery that can identify the biggest offenders.
bob1029 12 hours ago [-]
I can't wait for satellite imagery to become so ubiquitous that my HOA can realistically begin enforcing fines for installing powerful 5000k+ LED bulbs outside your home.
This needs to be a PSA thing like not smoking or digging into piles of asbestos. The exterior environment is becoming extremely hostile in the visible part of the EM spectrum.
At some point I have a hard time attributing this to incompetence. Malice seems more likely in some situations I've seen. I can tell some neighbors are at war with each other. New commercial and municipal lighting installations are beyond nightmarish around me.
kykat 11 hours ago [-]
Notice how dark Ukraine is
ElijahLynn 11 hours ago [-]
Love this! I suppose this is easy enough to do with satellite imagery.
Next up, I would love a noise pollution map. And every time I think about it, I think it just needs to be an opt-in, kind of SETI@home type global network of people wanting to submit decibel levels from their smart devices or any kind of device really into a global database.
Then people could be careful about where they rent a house or an apartment by maybe a busy place that they don't hear the sound pollution at the time they visited it, but can look later after they leave the tour and say, oh, it's actually really noisy there at 10:00 at night and I'm not going to sleep very well.
Isn't it time to change that?
Like, go to [0], and zoom in a bit, and see how moving and zooming in that image is easier than on a map. But, isn't a map the same thing?
[0]: https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/stsci-01...
https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-signs-20-ye...
This needs to be a PSA thing like not smoking or digging into piles of asbestos. The exterior environment is becoming extremely hostile in the visible part of the EM spectrum.
At some point I have a hard time attributing this to incompetence. Malice seems more likely in some situations I've seen. I can tell some neighbors are at war with each other. New commercial and municipal lighting installations are beyond nightmarish around me.
Next up, I would love a noise pollution map. And every time I think about it, I think it just needs to be an opt-in, kind of SETI@home type global network of people wanting to submit decibel levels from their smart devices or any kind of device really into a global database.
Then people could be careful about where they rent a house or an apartment by maybe a busy place that they don't hear the sound pollution at the time they visited it, but can look later after they leave the tour and say, oh, it's actually really noisy there at 10:00 at night and I'm not going to sleep very well.