How to find fresh air using Google Maps

The quality of the air around you has a great impact on your quality of life. In addition to the long-term effects on health, poor air quality can make what you are doing much more difficult, especially for people with respiratory illness.

However, air quality changes from place to place, day by day, and sometimes from time to time. If you want to check the air in your area, and perhaps find a place where it’s fresher, you can do that using Google Maps. Here’s what you need to know:

How to check air quality using Google Maps

The Air quality layer Google Maps (both Android and iOS) uses data from sources such as: Environmental Protection Agency..

Tap the button in the upper right corner of the screen[空気の質]Select to add an air quality layer to your map. It includes guidance on outdoor activities in addition to the Air Quality Index (AQI), which is a measure of air health or unhealth.When The date and time when the information was last updated.

How to monitor wildfires

Even if you don’t live in a part of a country that is prone to wildfires As I learned last summerSmoke from a fire on the west coast can flow into the east coast and the air quality can be very poor.

To monitor the situation related to the fire Wildfire layer on Google MapsUses information from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) to provide details of fires in your area.

Another option is to use the Google Maps search feature to search for “nearby wildfires”. This will display information about air quality and other fires. Within the next few months, Google will add smoke data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to its air quality information.