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NUKEMAP 2.6 is here. Two big changes: 1. It's no longer on Google Maps API. I'll be writing a blog post on why, but in short: Google has effectively raised its rates by 10X and it is no longer feasible for a moderately popular (by Internet standards) website to use them. (1/3)pic.twitter.com/gpH6xpTn63
To give numbers: to handle the 200K map loads per month that NUKEMAP gets, Google wants to charge me >$1000 a month. Even if I ran ads, that's not sustainable. It's crazy. Fortunately MapBox makes for a perfect alternative (esp. w/LeafLet), and has totally reasonable rates. (2/3)
2. You can now calculate fallout dose exposures over time, including with various sorts of shelters. When fallout is displayed, click "probe location," and drag the probe where you're interested in probing. This is still a work in progress, but it works. (3/3)pic.twitter.com/dS4amgS1Rj
(And without getting ahead of things, I have a great CS student who is helping with some other big additions in the next few months, as his senior design project. More or those later, but interesting things are in the works.)
(And it goes without saying — if some kind of mysterious new bug pops up, let me know: wellerstein@gmail.com. I had to roll this code out pretty quickly to avoid my NUKEMAP budget being totally consumed by Google's ravenous maw.)
@mhanham might know more about this but can't you simply get support from Google for Good (nonprofits)? Anyway, a heart congrats on the project! I always mention/use it in classes whenever I can!
They shuffle me off to Google for Education, which seems mostly designed to extract money from educational institutions. There are ways you can try to apply for Cloud Platform grants, and supposedly (they say only in e-mail) they can be used for Maps API credit, but (1/2)
for reasons I'll outline in my blog post I've decided all of this was just too unreliable and too much hassle. I have never had *any* success at getting Google to think my kind of work was a social good anyway. I'm tired of trying. (2/2)
Thank you for keeping this project going...as a teacher your site has been valuable to show the destructive nature of these weapons.
@googlemaps Read this thread and reconsider your pricing model.
My conclusion, after interacting with their customer service people (and dealing with them as a developer for years), is that they don't actually give a damn. I'll be writing about this soon.pic.twitter.com/CVWmdoBX60
Probably true.
Looking forward to your post.
yeah, @jef_poskanzer went through this a few months ago, he wrote this about switching to Leaflethttps://acme.com/updates/archive/208.html …
Thanks. There are a few other tips and tricks (e.g., Mapbox handles geocoding differently, and if you want high-res maps, you have to do a few other little things), but yeah, it's not a hard conversion.
I abstract geocoding via a script that converts whatever geocoder I'm currently using into the API from the first geocoder I used: Yahoo! To switch geocoders I adapt the script and everything else continues to work.
I haven't yet found a source for satellite tiles that are as detailed as Google's. If you do, plz put that in your blog post!
Earlier this year, I attended an unclassified lecture on nuclear explosions given by someone from one of the labs. Afterward, I was talking to the lecturer, asking about this or that size nuclear explosion. "Seriously, just use NUKEMAP."
This map of yours is one of the coolest uses of mapping overlays + science info that I've seen. Thanks for producing and giving it away to the world. :)
Agree with Matt but, would add ART as well, to use your skills to bring home the impact of these
weapons that our governments seem hell bent right now to expand to every corner of our globe 
S.O.S.
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