[Talk-GB] Solar PV data snapshot released today

[Dan S]

Hi all,

I'm very pleased to say we've published a snapshot of the OSM UK solar
PV data today.

The journal article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00739-0
The twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/mclduk/status/1327192431117422595

Some of you may be wondering why a snapshot is needed, when OSM is
there for all to download. Our goal is to make the data maximally
accessible for researchers, data scientists, and people in the power
industry. So the paper and the data release should be easier to
discover, and easier to re-use.

The paper is also partly intended to help data scientists understand
how to work with the OSM community, so that they can improve the data
within OSM whilst also meeting their own goals - i.e. beyond treating
OSM as just a data source.

Best
Dan