[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap in the news: solar energy facilities

[Cj Malone]

On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 12:48 +0000, Jon Pennycook wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've only just seen this, even though it's in last week's edition:-
> https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/an-accurate-tally-of-the-worlds-solar-power-stations/21805945
> 
> It looks like OSM was used to train an AI to look for solar panels. 
> The
> researcher also has a GitHub page:
> https://github.com/Lkruitwagen (and
> https://github.com/Lkruitwagen/solar-pv-global-inventory)
> 
> Jon

That looks pretty interesting, do you know if the computed dataset was
made public?

Cj