Join a Global Effort
To date, more than 39 cities in 15 countries are actively participating in this effort. You can view urban environmental data from these cities within our global map, or one of our Spotlight Cities below. If you don't see your city listed and want to know how to get started, or simply want to collaborate within an existing city project, please let us know. Getting started is easy!
Spotlight Cities
Each Spotlight City uses unique visualizations and interactive storytelling to highlight deeper aspects of urban environmental pollution.
Visit spotlight cities using the boxes below.
Indianapolis, USA
Map My Indy
Explore how concentrations of environmental contaminants can change across a city or even on a single property.
Newcastle, UK
Map My Newcastle
This spotlight on Newcastle, UK explores air quality within a vibrant modern city using a data collected by the Newcastle Urban Observatory monitoring network. While initially designed to display relative risk from outdoor air quality metrics, the application will soon expand to explore spatial patterns of indoor air quality as well.
Sydney, AUS
Map My Sydney
Explore how environmental contaminants in urban soil and household dust are often connected, and how sometimes they are not.
Melbourne, AUS
Map My Melbourne
Explore how environmental contaminants in urban soil and household dust are often connected, and how sometimes they are not.
Coming Soon
Canada Dust Study
Map My Canada
This spotlight displays the efforts of the Canadian House Dust Study (CHDS) to create a robust, nationally representative, baseline estimate for lead and other chemical constituents of settled dust in urban Canadian homes. The data were collected from 1,025 homes across various Canadian provinces.
You and Your Environment
Throughout your lifetime, the environment around you plays a significant role in your health. It includes the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the dirt under your feet. If your genome is the genetic material you're born with, your exposome is the environmental exposure that happens to you along the way.
Principal Investigators
Mark Patrick Taylor
Professor of Environmental Science at Macquarie University
Gabe Filippelli
Professor of Earth Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Jane Entwistle
Professor of Applied Geochemistry and Health at Northumbria University
Kin Fai Ho
Associate Professor of Public Health at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Donate To The Project!
Map My Environment, and its supporting projects (360 Dust Analysis , VegeSafe), are free to use so that everyone has the opportunity to be empowered and make informed decisions about their environment. But, it costs money for us to do each analysis. In fact, it's about $10 per sample. This important work is funded by generous donations and grants. If you are able to do so, please consider making a donation to this community-engaged research.