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

[Jez Nicholson]

Obviously we are talking about home/small-scale solar here. It could get
quite involved, I'm sure that people are running whole businesses trying to
analyse satellite imagery for this. Need to keep it simple and practical
for this project, unless people have lots of time and energy to spare.

An analysis (or link to an analysis) of the official stats could be useful.
Exactly how did they make their estimates?

Another idea: councils are making an effort to put panels on their
properties. Could we FOI request them? or maybe someone has already done so.



On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 8:59 AM Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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