It looks pretty but misses the detail in the magic step then a miracle occurs.
Currently wind is the cheapest renewable energy source. Off shore works well but the central area of North America works fine. Unfortunately New York, Toronto, Montreal were all established in relatively wind free areas many years ago so they need a power grid to get the energy to them. Wind also has the advantage of being available when all those office lights in the buildings were on in the video. There are a couple of problems with solar, first the cost of connecting to the grid is quite high. More than 50% of a home roof top installation costs are for permits and connections. That's why OREC.ca likes bigger roofs and ground solar arrays. The second problem is roof vents, they limit where solar panels can be placed on the roof. Currently there are very few roof vents in OSM to see where solar panels could be placed. Very few buildings have enough roof detail to see if the slope is in the right direction for solar panels. OREC accept that wind turbines are nice but the most efficient ones today are big and that means expensive $3-4 million dollars each which they think they can't affordon a local coop basis. A wind farm makes sense from a logistics point of view but a decent wind farm has many turbines, we aren't talking local here. The bigger they are the more efficient they are and the more likely to produce a steady stream of electricity. Most are around 499 feet tall, the FAA require extra steps in their approval process if its higher than 499 feet. New ones in the pipeline are 850 feet tall. On the mapping side I haven't seen any feedback on how much detail has been attached to buildings as part of the BC2020i project. If anywhere I'd expect Ottawa to have the richest tag set per building. Personally I think if the BC2020i is to be revived mappers really need some feedback on what has been done and what tags are of interest. Cheerio John On 6 September 2018 at 11:06, Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is cool. Could we not develop a BC2020i challenge similar to the ECCE > annual challenge? (See McMaster University Team’s winning ECCE 2018 entry: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRb_g1llT00&feature=youtu.be&list= > PLdgq5G0ox73VEQFJd4No6peb4NP-GFbdU > > > > Jonathan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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