[Talk-GB] Tools to support solar panel mapping?

[Gregory Williams]

All,

I've also been working on a comparison tool for OSM solar mapping, as compared with the FiT register. I've just placed an initial version here:

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My version compares at LLSOA level and then aggregates them up to their local authorities and the whole country. It's been pretty much inspired by Robert Whittaker and Greg RS's ever-useful comparison tools. It's functional, but still needs some polish. Known issues include:


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Currently updated manually. I currently hope to update every few days, and eventually daily;
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The tool differentiates between solar plants and generators, and avoids counting individual generators in a plant. Currently, though, it counts plants towards completeness, even though it's likely that these are solar farms in excess of the size used in the FiT register;
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Only the number of installations is used for comparison at present, not the electricity output;
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There are only maps on the local authority pages at the moment, not on the country summary page.

I aim to add some more functionality to the site over the next few days and weeks.

Regards,

Gregory

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On Jun 10 2019, at 8:37 pm, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

Following up on this thread about tools to support solar mapping -
just to say that thanks to Sylwia Mielnicka there's a map of
completeness-per-postcode-district:
https://bl.ocks.org/SylwiaOliwia2/cf0d679e81a7c8bfee8888189ec364bb
I think this is going to get set up to run daily updates or similar.
Discussion forum:
<http://openclimatefix.discourse.group/t/plot-solar-panels-not-added-to-osm-yet/56/3>

There's also a chance that we can get this at higher granularity (for
England and Wales) at least, by using LSOAs rather than postcode
districts. Another person has said they'll have a go at merging the
two granularities.

Best
Dan


Op do 23 mei 2019 om 08:57 schreef Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>:

Hi

Related to the idea of solar panel mapping, I've had a request for
info about what sort of software tools might help support this work.
We might be using some of the familiar tools (e.g. streetcomplete,
openinframap, ... even tasking manager?).

It'd be useful to have something like
completeness-by-postcode-district. Unlike Robert's postbox tools, we
don't have any official ID numbers for the items-to-map, we just have
some official stats (to be taken with a pinch of salt) about how many
are in each postcode district - but still, that could be a start.

I'd also be interested in some tool that predicts where to look, which
might be based on analysing imagery, but perhaps more realistically
based on some mix of heuristics and official data.

Any thoughts?

Best
Dan

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