Grade: C+
The idea is a good one, but there are two basic problems:
1. The data the map is based on looks like about 7-8 years old. It needs to be current as of like say… last 30 days.
2. The data is not detailed enough to be useful in say, if you life in a metro country, where are the micro areas that have darker skye due to geographic shadows, or less commercial/street lighting, so that you dont have to drive hundreds of miles just to find reasonably darker skys…
Somewhere in the US government, someone is actually tracking all this on a night by night basis down the 1/10 acre pixel world wide. The US Dept of Ag. and US Dept of Commerce, USGS, EPA, not to mention CIA,DHS, FBI, DOD, etc… I am sure that data set is available if the right request is made… If not, I have connections that can make that happen, but like everything dealing the the Gov., if you dont ask, you dont get...
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