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OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped (opengridworks.com)
159 points by jonbraun 21 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 23 comments
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The map is missing a proper attribution as it is required by OpenStreetMap when using the project's data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/attribution-guide/

It is in the bottom right corner when clicking (i) button just like the https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guideline... suggests. The only questionable part I see is that after page reload it flickers for half a second and then gets automatically hidden instead of getting hidden after manual interaction with map. Is there any other point in attribution requirements that it doesn't comply with?

I could've sworn it wasn't there before - but maybe I also just missed it since it is covered by the half-transparent panel (on mobile) and all the other stuff around it distracted me.

Watch out, every little map zoom or slide seems to put another url in your browser history. Not exaggerating here, must have found over 100 of them after just a minute or so of playing with the page

Related, mapping of OSM infrastructure data:

https://openinframap.org/


Satellites on the outside as well kind of neat. Does Africa not have much opendata sharing or little mapped? Its wildly different on the map for sparsity of info.

This is really cool! As a weird coincidence I was actually working on something similar focusing on datacenter load per ISO literally earlier today! https://energy-vis-chi.vercel.app/

This is awesome. It'd be even more awesome if it was easier to show a power plant's info upon hover / click. ...It's currently too much of a cat-and-mouse game for me.


Thanks, it's much easier to load info with the option you shared.

It takes over 150% CPU and counting. I'm not sure that this page is even loaded in full since it overheated the whole system. This is definitely not cool.

Man thats a beautiful looking map and shows datacenters and other infrastructure too. Very rad.

Nice. I had no idea that nearby paper mill includes 200MW of power generation.

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This is extremely cool especially for me since I work in sustainability. Wondering if theres a github attached or open to sharing the data or collaborate?

The map uses OpenStreetMap as data source.

If you're not using the OSM API, there are also full exports of the complete dataset available at https://planet.openstreetmap.org/


Another auto spinning globe with no way to turn that off.

At this point I'm convinced all these globe apps are copying the same examples from somewhere and inheriting the same gimmick.


Massively slow

Completely inaccurate, claiming the uk is currently producing 115GW of electricity for example


its like a military targeting map for our geopolitical adversaries

If all the schools are on google maps it makes it harder to claim "I thought it was a military base ... and even if it was a school the other guys definately did it"

Or we could just stop spending trillions bombing each other and get back to work.


Or domestic. I'm shocked this information is this available.

It is simply difficult to hide. You can just go and look at the infrastructure, after all. I bet almost all the information is from OpenStreetmaps, and people just walked around and added all the power lines, substations and powerplants they saw by hand.

And sure, you can bury the cables, or you can try keeping the output of your powerplants secret. But then the infrastructure nerds (or foreign spies) just count coal hopper railway cars per day and analyze cooling tower dimensions.


Yeah. I get that adversaries can capture their own high res satellite photos and determine this, but this is just handing it to them on a silver platter.



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