Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels 150k up

[Dan S]

Hi

That paper is interesting+recent, and uses osm data, but within this osm UK
project we're getting more data and more detail. I'll say more later, once
we've tidied up our work here.

Btw just in case anyone notices: the authors have released the data, but
forgot to state the ODbL licence, needed since it's osm-derived. I'm
already in touch with them about that.

Best
Dan



Op maandag 18 mei 2020 schreef Christian Ledermann <
christian.lederm...@gmail.com>:
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0469-8
>
> Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power
>
> Abstract
>
> Energy systems need decarbonisation in order to limit global warming to
within safe limits. While global land planners are promising more of the
planet’s limited space to wind and solar photovoltaic, there is little
information on where current infrastructure is located. The majority of
recent studies use land suitability for wind and solar, coupled with
technical and socioeconomic constraints, as a proxy for actual location
data. Here, we address this shortcoming. Using readily accessible
OpenStreetMap data we present, to our knowledge, the first global,
open-access, harmonised spatial datasets of wind and solar installations.
We also include user friendly code to enable users to easily create newer
versions of the dataset. Finally, we include first order estimates of power
capacities of installations. We anticipate these data will be of widespread
interest within global studies of the future potential and trade-offs
associated with the global decarbonisation of energy systems.
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 15:49, Christian Ledermann <
christian.lederm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Great work :-)
>> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 14:17, Jez Nicholson 
wrote:
>>>
>>> "100%, 100%!!!"
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jez Nicholson 
wrote:

 Of approximately 300 ground-mounted solar farms (field(s) full of
solar panels generating >=1MW) in the UK we have around 12 remaining to
locatewhich, quite frankly, is astounding. I am getting ready to run
around my study shouting, "100%, 100%!!!" as soon as I get a few more hours
to complete the list. Most are a simple boundary outline. It is common to
have a 'deer fence' around the installation and this makes for a nice
boundary, some are detailed with individual banks of panels. I favour
progressive enhancement of sites over time. Thank you to everyone involved.
 There are approximately 740 roof-mounted solar farms. I have not made
any attempt yet to collate or locate them. My limited experience is that
these are harder to armchair-map.
 On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:07 PM Gregory Williams <
greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 11:08 +0100, SK53 wrote:
> > Just would like to point out that we passed the 150,000 mark of
solar
> > panels mapped in the UK. Dan & Jez are best informed about solar
> > farms, so the rest of this update is on small domestic rooftop
> > installations.
> >
> > A number of us continue to spend time mapping rooftop panels, and,
> > although progress is not at the heady rate of last Summer, this has
> > resulted in improved coverage of a number of local authorities.
These
> > are the activities of which I'm aware, there are no doubt others
I've
> > missed:
> > I mainly aim to push reasonably well-mapped LAs over various
> > thresholds (50%, 60% & 80% are the ones I find most useful), and to
> > try & create a contiguous band of well-mapped (>50%) across England
&
> > Wales. Recently I've worked on Flintshire, Hinckley & Bosworth and
> > Vale Royal.
> > gurglypipe continues to spread out beyond Lancaster into South Lakes
> > to the N & Ribbledale and to the S
> > brianboru continues to pick up a significant number of installations
> > across Herefordshire & the Welsh Valleys as part of general mapping
> > work
> > Gregory Williams continues to focus on hotspot unmapped LSOAs
> > MapRoulette users make a steady contribution by converting panels
> > mapped as nodes to areas
> > Gregory has recently updated the FIT data to March which added
> > perhaps 20,000 additional installations. To deal with these he had
to
> > change the LA boundaries used to incorporate unitary authorities
> > (affecting Cheshire, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Shropshire, Northumberland
> > & perhaps others). One consequence is that some well-mapped
districts
> > dropped below thresholds, so I've been working over the last few
days
> > to restore them if possible (Ashford, Hart & Rugby still to be
hauled
> > back over 50%). Very kindly, he agreed to retain the original
> > district boundaries on a distinct web page, because I found working
> > with the old districts of large rural counties more useful than the
> > new boundaries.
>
> The distinct web page is at:
> 

Re: [Talk-GB] Solar panels 150k up

[Christian Ledermann]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0469-8
Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power
Abstract

Energy systems need decarbonisation in order to limit global warming to
within safe limits. While global land planners are promising more of the
planet’s limited space to wind and solar photovoltaic, there is little
information on where current infrastructure is located. The majority of
recent studies use land suitability for wind and solar, coupled with
technical and socioeconomic constraints, as a proxy for actual location
data. Here, we address this shortcoming. Using readily accessible
OpenStreetMap data we present, to our knowledge, the first global,
open-access, harmonised spatial datasets of wind and solar installations.
We also include user friendly code to enable users to easily create newer
versions of the dataset. Finally, we include first order estimates of power
capacities of installations. We anticipate these data will be of widespread
interest within global studies of the future potential and trade-offs
associated with the global decarbonisation of energy systems.

On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 15:49, Christian Ledermann <
christian.lederm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Great work :-)
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 14:17, Jez Nicholson 
> wrote:
>
>> "100%, 100%!!!"
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jez Nicholson 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Of approximately 300 ground-mounted solar farms (field(s) full of solar
>>> panels generating >=1MW) in the UK we have around 12 remaining to
>>> locatewhich, quite frankly, is astounding. I am getting ready to run
>>> around my study shouting, "100%, 100%!!!" as soon as I get a few more hours
>>> to complete the list. Most are a simple boundary outline. It is common to
>>> have a 'deer fence' around the installation and this makes for a nice
>>> boundary, some are detailed with individual banks of panels. I favour
>>> progressive enhancement of sites over time. Thank you to everyone involved.
>>>
>>> There are approximately 740 roof-mounted solar farms. I have not made
>>> any attempt yet to collate or locate them. My limited experience is that
>>> these are harder to armchair-map.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:07 PM Gregory Williams <
>>> greg...@gregorywilliams.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
 On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 11:08 +0100, SK53 wrote:
 > Just would like to point out that we passed the 150,000 mark of solar
 > panels mapped in the UK. Dan & Jez are best informed about solar
 > farms, so the rest of this update is on small domestic rooftop
 > installations.
 >
 > A number of us continue to spend time mapping rooftop panels, and,
 > although progress is not at the heady rate of last Summer, this has
 > resulted in improved coverage of a number of local authorities. These
 > are the activities of which I'm aware, there are no doubt others I've
 > missed:
 > I mainly aim to push reasonably well-mapped LAs over various
 > thresholds (50%, 60% & 80% are the ones I find most useful), and to
 > try & create a contiguous band of well-mapped (>50%) across England &
 > Wales. Recently I've worked on Flintshire, Hinckley & Bosworth and
 > Vale Royal.
 > gurglypipe continues to spread out beyond Lancaster into South Lakes
 > to the N & Ribbledale and to the S
 > brianboru continues to pick up a significant number of installations
 > across Herefordshire & the Welsh Valleys as part of general mapping
 > work
 > Gregory Williams continues to focus on hotspot unmapped LSOAs
 > MapRoulette users make a steady contribution by converting panels
 > mapped as nodes to areas
 > Gregory has recently updated the FIT data to March which added
 > perhaps 20,000 additional installations. To deal with these he had to
 > change the LA boundaries used to incorporate unitary authorities
 > (affecting Cheshire, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Shropshire, Northumberland
 > & perhaps others). One consequence is that some well-mapped districts
 > dropped below thresholds, so I've been working over the last few days
 > to restore them if possible (Ashford, Hart & Rugby still to be hauled
 > back over 50%). Very kindly, he agreed to retain the original
 > district boundaries on a distinct web page, because I found working
 > with the old districts of large rural counties more useful than the
 > new boundaries.

 The distinct web page is at:
 http://osm.gregorywilliams.me.uk/solar_2001/

 I also hope to soon have LSOA-level detail on the Scottish pages, which
 should help with locating PV installations from aerial imagery more
 easily -- I'm conscious that it's a bit difficult at the moment, with
 the areas being so physically large.

 >
 > As well as adding new panels here's still plenty to do with the ones
 > already mapped: adding buildings under mapped panels, adjusting
 > position, adding number of 

Re: [Talk-GB] INSPIRE Polygons spatial data

[Christian Ledermann]

I was thinking along the lines:
A WM(T)S base map of overlayed/consolidated inspire/ordnance survey, not
revealing any of the postcodes and internal ids
ianal but imho that would not violate any of the licences

On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 20:35, SK53  wrote:

> It's always been useless to us. However the terms have changed since the
> original release (basically IIRC to make the restrictions more explicit).
>
> Jerry
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 19:48, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <
> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Is
>> "Although the data is released under the OGL, there is an
>> important caveat: third party rights the Information Provider is not
>> authorised to license"
>> is still applicable what makes it basically useless for us?
>>
>> May 16, 2020, 16:47 by christian.lederm...@gmail.com:
>>
>> Reading through the inspire land registry data, it seems they have
>> adjusted their licence:
>> What would that mean for use in OSM?
>>
>>
>> https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inspire-index-polygons-spatial-data#conditions-of-use
>>
>> Conditions of use
>>
>> Your use of the INSPIRE Index Polygons service is governed by conditions.
>>
>> The INSPIRE Index Polygons and attributes provided in this service are
>> available for use and reuse under the Open Government Licence (OGL)
>> .
>> This licence enables public bodies to make their data available free of
>> charge for reuse.
>>
>> Use under the OGL is free. If you fail to comply with any of the
>> conditions of the OGL then the rights granted to you under the licence
>> will end automatically.
>>
>> Under the OGL, when reusing the data you must acknowledge the source of
>> the data and include the following attribution statement:
>>
>> This information is subject to Crown copyright and is reproduced with the
>> permission of HM Land Registry.
>>
>> If you are reusing the polygons (including the associated geometry,
>> namely x, y co-ordinates), you must also display the following Ordnance
>> Survey copyright/database right notice:
>>
>> © Crown copyright and database rights [year of supply or date of
>> publication] Ordnance Survey 100026316.
>>
>> You must provide a link to these conditions, where possible.
>>
>> Under the OGL, HM Land Registry permits you to use the data for
>> commercial or non-commercial purposes. However, as the licence says, OGL does
>> not cover the use of third party rights which we are not authorised to
>> license. HM Land Registry uses Ordnance Survey data in the preparation of
>> the polygons and you will need to comply with Ordnance Survey licensing
>> terms for use of the polygons (including the associated geometry, namely
>> x,y co-ordinates).
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Christian Ledermann
>>
>> Newark-on-Trent - UK
>> Mobile : +44 7474997517
>>
>> https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianledermann
>> https://github.com/cleder/
>>
>>
>> <*)))>{
>>
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>> you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If
>> you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both.
>>
>> 1) Don’t drive species to extinction
>>
>> 2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on.
>>
>> 3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above.
>>
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Best Regards,

Christian Ledermann

Newark-on-Trent - UK
Mobile : +44 7474997517

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianledermann
https://github.com/cleder/


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If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left,
you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If
you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both.

1) Don’t drive species to extinction

2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on.

3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above.

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[Talk-GB] Call for a coder: phone app for solar panel spotting

[Dan S]

Hi all,

Together with two UK nonprofits who are working on the climate crisis
(OpenClimateFix and Possible), I'm looking for someone who could help
us to put together a phone app for spotting solar panels in the UK.

We've done really well so far on getting UK solar panels into OSM. The
aim here is to engage a wider public, people who don't know
OpenStreetMap, by making the simplest possible phone app, with the
simplest user journey: take photo of solar panels, submit.

Our idea is to use the Mapillary APIs, which provide a very good
back-end https://www.mapillary.com/developer - so, the programming
task is relatively straightforward: build a simple phone app using
Mapillary SDKs. We're just looking for someone with the skills and
willingness to do it!

Please get in touch with me directly.

Best
Dan

P.S.
OpenClimateFix: https://openclimatefix.org/
Possible: https://www.wearepossible.org/

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