OpenStreetMap Time Lapse of Electricity Grid Edits

About

This visualization shows OpenStreetMap editors collectively adding data about the electricity grid over a period of eight years. This shows the history of everything tagged with power=* (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power) in Europe. This includes power plants, wind turbines, PV installations, transformers, pylons, etc. The movie frames each correspond to the state of all the power data at some particular date, which you can see displayed in the bottom right corner. At the beginning of 2007, people have just begun to start tagging the power grid, and now in 2015 the OSM power data has become quite comprehensive, particularly in Western Europe.

See http://www.itoworld.com/map/106 for an interactive map showing the same data based on the latest data from OpenStreetMap.

This data is already being used to extract models of the power grid for research purposes: https://scigrid.de/

Visualization made using osm-history-renderer (https://github.com/MaZderMind)/osm-history-renderer

Archive

Wikimedia Commons, in Wikimedia Commons

Licence or status

CC BY 3.0, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

Rights statement

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Credit

Chris Davis

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed