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China: Pollution levels around Olympic venues

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 @ 21:11 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Environment, Health, Software & Tools
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

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This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Off the Map blogger Sean Gorman and friends have taken Chinese government pollution data and made a mashup map of pollution levels in the areas surrounding Olympic venues in Beijing. Code to embed the map here.

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