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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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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

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    2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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      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)

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    3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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      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

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    4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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      Anyway, check them out:https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ 

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    5. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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      (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.)

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    6. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 24 Oct 2018
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      (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.)

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    7. Nathan Ruser‏ @Nrg8000 25 Oct 2018
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      Keen for your Google rant! Quick bug/feature to report, when you export to kml the base altitude option is in the 'advanced options'. This being set at the default of 100m makes it invisible in most areas of altitude. Would it be better set to relative to ground as default?

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    8. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 25 Oct 2018
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      Huh, I haven't looked at this in awhile. In my code I have an option for "relative to ground" vs. "absolute" but it isn't in the menu. I'll try to see, when I get a chance, if there was a reason for that or if it is just an oversight.

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 25 Oct 2018
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      Oh, never mind. It's in there at the bottom. I think the reason I ended up going with absolute is that relative produced weird effects a lot of the time. But I can take another look at it.

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        2. Nathan Ruser‏ @Nrg8000 25 Oct 2018
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          yeah that's fair honestlypic.twitter.com/7xbtgAK2Tk

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        3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 25 Oct 2018
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          My recollection is it has to do with the size of the polygons — if their points are all relative to ground then the different layers overlap a lot. There is probably some cleverer approach to it than what I've done, if I dive into KML spec.

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