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OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

159 pointsby jonbraunyesterday at 9:12 PM23 commentsview on HN

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eliasprotoday at 4:17 AM

The map is missing a proper attribution as it is required by OpenStreetMap when using the project's data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/attribution-guide/

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greenbittoday at 5:17 PM

Watch out, every little map zoom or slide seems to put another url in your browser history. Not exaggerating here, must have found over 100 of them after just a minute or so of playing with the page

nullholetoday at 2:44 AM

Related, mapping of OSM infrastructure data:

https://openinframap.org/

boringgtoday at 1:43 PM

Satellites on the outside as well kind of neat. Does Africa not have much opendata sharing or little mapped? Its wildly different on the map for sparsity of info.

curiouscrow55today at 2:14 AM

This is really cool! As a weird coincidence I was actually working on something similar focusing on datacenter load per ISO literally earlier today! https://energy-vis-chi.vercel.app/

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reconnectingtoday at 5:29 AM

It takes over 150% CPU and counting. I'm not sure that this page is even loaded in full since it overheated the whole system. This is definitely not cool.

mcbishoptoday at 3:57 AM

This is awesome. It'd be even more awesome if it was easier to show a power plant's info upon hover / click. ...It's currently too much of a cat-and-mouse game for me.

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VectorLocktoday at 2:45 AM

Man thats a beautiful looking map and shows datacenters and other infrastructure too. Very rad.

zvqcMMV6Zcrtoday at 10:28 AM

Nice. I had no idea that nearby paper mill includes 200MW of power generation.

NooneAtAll3today at 2:32 PM

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Johnny_Bonktoday at 1:44 AM

This is extremely cool especially for me since I work in sustainability. Wondering if theres a github attached or open to sharing the data or collaborate?

topspintoday at 5:50 AM

Another auto spinning globe with no way to turn that off.

At this point I'm convinced all these globe apps are copying the same examples from somewhere and inheriting the same gimmick.

iso1631today at 9:52 AM

Massively slow

Completely inaccurate, claiming the uk is currently producing 115GW of electricity for example

nininininotoday at 4:58 AM

its like a military targeting map for our geopolitical adversaries

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T3RMINATEDtoday at 2:21 PM

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