Press & Reuse

Press resources

Everything below is live and public. Start here if you are working a local air story.

City air-quality records Air Records ranks the worst observed PM2.5 days for 100 U.S. metros, with the date, the reading, how it ranks against the local history, and whether the value is provisional or certified.
Named air events Air events groups the record days into named episodes by year, each with its cause, the metros it hit, and the evidence behind the attribution.
Current conditions Smoke Map for wildfire smoke and Air Map for a neutral view of fine-particle levels.
Camera map Environmental Cameras for visual context near a monitor. Camera imagery is context, not measurement, and most of it is not licensed for republication. See reuse terms below.
Data downloads Every city record page offers a CSV of the ranked days under both measures, with units, AQI, and status flags. The direct pattern is /records/<city>.csv, for example /records/chicago.csv.
Methodology and standards Editorial standards covers sourcing, data status labels, air-event attribution, and corrections. Each record page states its measure, geography, and period of record.

Available assets

IAQng offers data downloads today. No camera media is published as a press download yet, so this page does not point to a press kit that does not exist.

Reuse terms are recorded per asset rather than asserted on this page. The machine-readable record is press-asset-index.v1.json, which lists every offered dataset with its owner, source, license, required attribution, limitations, data status, and version, alongside the reuse posture of every registered camera source. It is generated from the same rights registry the camera program runs on, and an automated check fails if the two disagree.

Asset	Status	Terms
City record data (CSV)	Available now	Underlying data are U.S. government works. The IAQng compilation is CC BY 4.0. The license and citation line ship inside each file.
Maps and graphics	On request	IAQng-created overlays, cards, and graphics can be licensed for reuse. Ask and we will send the file with its attribution line.
Camera imagery and video	Case by case	Rights belong to the camera operator and are reviewed per source. Some grant redistribution outright, others are embed-only, conditional on the specific use, or unresolved. Even an outright grant needs a check on the individual frame, so nothing becomes a press download on the source terms alone.
Published media assets	None yet	When a frame or graphic clears review it appears in the asset index with its owner, source, capture date, IAQng contribution, license, required attribution, limitations, and version. Until then the list is empty rather than aspirational.

Reuse terms

There is no single license covering everything on IAQng, because IAQng does not own everything on IAQng. Terms follow the asset:

What IAQng makes is licensed CC BY 4.0. That covers the record compilations, the maps and overlays, the cards, and the editorial text. Share and adapt it for any purpose, commercial included, with credit. You do not need to ask first.
Source data keeps its own status. U.S. agency measurements are government works. The IAQng compilation, ranking, and derived figures are what the CC BY license applies to.
Third-party imagery keeps its own terms. Camera operators retain their rights. Some feeds are public-domain government works and some are not, and being visible on the camera map does not make a feed reusable.
The asset record governs where terms differ. When an asset's entry in the asset index conflicts with this page, the asset record wins, and where the index conflicts with the underlying rights registry, the registry wins.
Anything without a documented reuse grant is viewable, not offered. If an asset is not listed as available for reuse, ask before republishing it.

Camera views are visual context. They are not air-quality measurements and are not evidence that smoke is present in a given frame. Please do not caption them that way.

Attribution

Short, for an on-screen or on-air credit:

IAQng / SpaceBot · iaqng.com · CC BY 4.0

Full, for a caption or description. Fill the bracketed fields from the asset record, since the data source and image owner change from asset to asset:

[Graphic or Data]: IAQng, a SpaceBot project (iaqng.com), CC BY 4.0. Air quality: [source, e.g. U.S. EPA AQS; provisional AirNow values subject to revision]. [Imagery: owner and terms, where imagery is included.] Cigarette comparison: Berkeley Earth.

Data downloads carry their citation and license line inside the file, so a copy that travels keeps its sources. When the asset library publishes, each asset will generate its own credit line rather than relying on this template.

Data and methodology

Most current air data is provisional. Fast-publishing sources release readings before certification, and those values can be revised. Record pages state which of the two a number is, and a ranking built on provisional data updates when the agency finalizes it. If you are publishing a ranking, say which status it carries at the time you publish.

Records rank observed PM2.5. A record day means particle levels were unusual for that metro; it does not by itself establish a cause. Where a ranked day links to a named air event, that cause comes from the event pipeline and the evidence is shown on its own page. Those names are not individually signed off before publication, so check the evidence before repeating a cause in print. Editorial standards sets out exactly what the attribution rests on.

The cigarette-equivalent figure is a public-awareness illustration comparing fine-particle mass, using Berkeley Earth's rule of thumb of roughly 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5 over a day per cigarette. It is not a medical equivalence, a personal exposure estimate, or a regulatory measurement. Please keep that framing.

About IAQng

Short boilerplate, free to publish as written:

IAQng (Indoor Air Quality Next Generation) is a public air-quality resource built and maintained by SpaceBot, a facilities AI company. It publishes current air conditions, historical PM2.5 records for 100 U.S. metros, environmental camera context, and decision tools for the people responsible for shared indoor space. Sources, data status, and sponsorship are disclosed on every page. iaqng.com

IAQng is a SpaceBot publication and is not an independent institute, a standards body, or a regulator. About IAQng has the longer version.

Press contact

Reach the team through SpaceBot or at iaqng@spacebot.ai. Useful things to ask for:

The record and historical context for a specific city.
Context on a current or developing air event.
A custom map or graphic for your market, framing, or aspect ratio.
Questions about the data, the measures, or the period of record.
Methodology detail beyond what a page states.
Reuse clearance for an asset that is not listed as available.

You do not need permission to use anything already licensed CC BY 4.0. Telling us where it ran is welcome but not required.