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The cartographers who use official data may be very
critical of the data but this did not stop them from using
official source:
Surely - the whole SPEEDI undertaking has
been shown to be a big failure… even today - if
you look at the official map. URL :
http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/index.html thats a
disaster!! TOKYO university, after months,
finally came up with their own www site-
incredible for an institution which claims to be
the top one in the country. Also they do not report
on their most polluted area- claiming to have
networking problems!!! http://www2.u- tokyo.ac.
jp/erc/index_e.html. [
sic
]
Andreas
Schneider,
interview by email, July 30, 2011
In addition to government data, Andreas Schneider's map
for the Institute for Information Design Japan uses data
from TEPCO to get a picture of the situation around the
Fukushima station. His choice stirred up some ethical
questions:
In regards to TEPCO - we long hesitated, but
then agreed to use their data - as even the
government would use it - so rather than having
these data published under the government's
name we felt it was more proper to name TEPCO
as such. Although we all share the dilemma that
these data are provided by those which have
vested
interests…
[
Sic
]
Andreas
Schneider,
interview by email, July 30, 2011
Finally, government and industrial sources can be used as
a last resort after failing to obtain independent data:
Obviously we ask, since the beginning, for a
neutral body of experts to monitor. […] Yes - we
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