[Talk-GB] UK Power Network Open Data Portal

[Cj Malone]

On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 10:53 +0100, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Energy infrastructure mappers may be interested that the UK Power
> Network
> just launched (like 40 minutes ago) their new Open Data portal
> https://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/home/ They are
> publishing
> CC-BY 4.0 licenced data such as the Embedded Capacity Register and
> Grid and
> Primary Sites. More data to follow...
> 
> It uses the Opendatasoft portal which has OpenStreetMap and Leaflet
> with
> tiles supplied by jawg.io

It's really good to see OSM as a basemap for industry. I wonder if it's
a side affect of partnering with opendatasoft, or if they made the
decision themselves.

Kind of related, I managed to map quite a lot of electricity sub
stations a while ago. I used the Land Registry dataset to identify
small parcels of land, these were usually substations or parking
spaces. However if they also had a UPRN it was a pretty good indicator
they were sub stations. Where I could verify with Bing (or survey a few
local ones under trees) I'd add them.

I thought that was a kinda cool when I did it.

Cj