From: Max Turunen To: Oleg Bodrov I am From Environment and Deevelopement, Max Turunen, the illustrator / cartographer of the Tsunami and Nuclear powerplant safety project (The Tsunami Campaign: http://www.hyokyaalto.org/ ) Urgent data is needed from you, and it seems from me to you, according to Risto Isomäki. Ok. Here's where I am at with the project: I use following sources: ***** INSCDB http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.php Zoom to Russia.... http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/russia.php *Really ZOOM* to russia... http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/russia.tif (.pdf Zooms even more) Zoom to Kola No4 http://www.insc.anl.gov/cgi-bin/sql_interface?view=rx_com_matrix&qvar=unit&qval=257 Zoom to Kola No5 http://www.insc.anl.gov/cgi-bin/sql_interface?view=rx_com_matrix&qvar=unit&qval=566 Note the copyright clause of INSCDB: http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/info/copyright.php If I got it right Risto will send them a notification of use... and thus be receiving further updates to Y&K address. ***** As Backup for checking accuracy and timeliness I use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors Zoom to Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Japan_nuke_plant_map2 Zoom to Genkai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant (In Finland: Looky looky, it's even got the Espoo Triga Mk2 research reactor. Seems accurate enough to project.) Here's their copyright clause for citations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License ***** Mmmmyep. That's my sources. For nukeplants that is. I basically just use incsdb, referenced with wiki for accuracy. Small research reactors (like the Espoo one) are to be left out from the first "instant" version according to my understanding, but fuller version with many, many browsable layers, will include them as one layer also). The INSCDB gives idea of accuracy to be used: won't help anyone to actually physically locate the reactor. Decommissioned, Operational and Planned will show with different colored dots on first "instant" maps. The brightness of neon-bordering of the dots is to indicate their Tsunamihazard. Final (updateable layers) bigger map will separate between reactors, waste material storage sites, fuel processing plants and uranium mines included (simple icon for each type... again the Operational status is displayed by icon color, and tsunami-riskiness by the neon color around them.... next to this will need to read precise altitude from sealevel... this altitude would be nice on first small version as well). Most Tsunami data (and much geological stability data) will come from: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=70&d=7 Here is a listing of all recorded Tsunamis from 1500 to present day. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?bt_0=1500&st_0=2008&type_8=EXACT&query_8=None+Selected&op_14=eq&v_14=&type_15=EXACT&query_15=None+Selected&type_7=Like&query_7=&st_1=&bt_2=&st_2=&bt_1=&bt_10=&st_10=&ge_9=&le_9=&bt_3=&st_3=&type_19=EXACT&query_19=None+Selected&op_17=eq&v_17=&type_18=EXACT&query_18=None+Selected&bt_20=&st_20=&bt_13=&st_13=&bt_16=&st_16=&bt_6=&st_6=&bt_11=&st_11=&d=195&t=101650&s=7 (Sorted alphabetically on thats one) Size at coastal area, frequency and recentness of the last even will be visible in the map Icon depictions. (I will actually mark "run-up-events" on the map. That means the tsunami waves that actually reached the shores and did damage there, and their height at the shore. I will not include the "Tsunami event" centers where the tsunamies have originated from, in the first small map. That will be browsable option for more detail layered version.) Much much other geological stability data will be inclded into the final map browseable map. Just Tsunamies on this current small map, with some closer detailed ares. (Do note their pleasant copyrights at the bottom of their disclaimers page.) ***** Anyhoo.... Smallbeta.jp = displays the small tiny map to be used for world poster leaflet Eurbeta.jpg = displays how the nuclear plant sites will be made to shine out, as will the most likely tsunami sites. This just shows the powerplants indiscriminately in one hasty color... but: there needs to be 3 colors: decommissioned (faded) . Operational High Red (as here all are). and planned: transparent. around the dots: Neon Blue ring tells estimated tsunami vulnerability (height from sealevel + tsunami frequencies + tsunami sizes). These maps also have exciting copyright clauses... I think they go as following: They are from Wikipedia as multicoloured topographical maps from NOAA... but might no longer be available as such.... so I guess I'll need to formulate a proper GNU and NOAA copyright mentions of them ***************************** Urgent: the completeness, and accuracy of these lists... and especially, the *reactor altitudes from sealevel*... according to Risto. ***************************** Why do we not use google with it's wonderful maps ? Because of their copyright complications. To get a free to publish detailed worldmap seems to need some tinkering and combinations. Most important: This small first hand leaflet worldmap... it's bleak... it's dead and gray and shadowy. That's good for impactful effect. To detailed areas we get inland waterways from those INSCDB .PDF edits (I'm looking for layer eraser, so that just detailed pure coastline of the world, with inland waters, can be extracted). To big detailed map with layers for seismics events, potentially Tsunami-dangerously located nuclear material routes, methane clarate fields ... and certain other things that are very essential... like the inland waterway accuracy seems essential to me. ...meanwhile as I do this I wonder ways to wringle that google earth copyright clause legalese so that it could be used and everyone (including google) is happy, without large (or any) payments (as this likely does not succeed, the map poster projects proceed herein) MaxT Ps. I have spotted some other precise (enough) maps of the continents and coastlines. As much as I have time I research availability and suitability for this project. Seems that they will have to wait until the next, web-browsable version, though.