[Talk-GB] Solar power mapping: 100k up

[Dan S]

P.S. blogged about the milestone here:
http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2019/solar-panels-in-the-uk-100000-spotted.html

Op do 12 sep. 2019 om 21:40 schreef Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all
>
> This is fantastic news! Thanks to everyone who has contributed (there
> are at least 30 different users taking part). We're definitely going
> to pilot some CO2-saving things using these data.
>
> Regarding the solar farms: I haven't tidied up my spreadsheet but I
> may as well just share it:
> http://www.mcld.co.uk/tmp/wiki_repd_list_dan.ods
> I've been working my way down that list (so far I've checked for
> everything that is 7 MW or larger) - and I know other people have been
> doing their own checking via other patterns. Generally, the Maxar
> premium imagery has seemed good.
>
> Please do continue with the smaller solar panels if you're willing :)
>
> BTW I'll be giving a talk about all this at SOTM in a couple of weeks.
> Great timing!
>
> Best
> Dan
>
> Op do 12 sep. 2019 om 20:30 schreef SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com>:
> >
> > It looks as though we have just passed the 100k solar installation mark as calculated by Gregory's site. We had 98,307 this morning and around 1700 have been added since this time yesterday (roughly the cut-off time for the stats).
> >
> > We have 4 LAs with over 80% of the FIT target mapped: Knowsley, Nottingham, Plymouth & Sunderland. Amazingly Plymouth is over 95% of the target. There are 2 others over 75%: Tameside and Ashfield, and around 16-17 with over half mapped. I hope one of these is the former district of Caradon in SE Cornwall as I've been mapping this area following Dan;s suggestion when I last reported this status.
> >
> > There are still a lot of solar farms to chase down. It would be nice to get more of them located (or in some cases just updating tagging). This is an area where we can get close to completeness (pace Brian's remarks earlier).
> >
> > Jerry
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