alt.hn

3/30/2026 at 9:12:46 PM

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

 https://www.opengridworks.com

by jonbraun

3/31/2026 at 4:17:45 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/

by eliaspro

3/31/2026 at 11:26:54 AM

It is in the bottom right corner when clicking (i) button just like the https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guideline... suggests. The only questionable part I see is that after page reload it flickers for half a second and then gets automatically hidden instead of getting hidden after manual interaction with map. Is there any other point in attribution requirements that it doesn't comply with?

by Karliss

3/31/2026 at 11:39:13 AM

I could've sworn it wasn't there before - but maybe I also just missed it since it is covered by the half-transparent panel (on mobile) and all the other stuff around it distracted me.

by eliaspro

3/31/2026 at 5:17:03 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

by greenbit

3/31/2026 at 3:57:10 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.

by mcbishop

3/31/2026 at 8:24:52 AM

Give https://mapcomplete.org/infrastructure a try

by pietervdvn

3/31/2026 at 1:47:17 PM

Thanks, it's much easier to load info with the option you shared.

by mcbishop

3/31/2026 at 6:21:30 PM

None of the layers show up for me

by ssc23

3/31/2026 at 2:14:25 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/

by curiouscrow55

3/31/2026 at 2:17:53 AM

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by curiouscrow55

3/31/2026 at 1:43:21 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.

by boringg

3/31/2026 at 5:29:21 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.

by reconnecting

3/31/2026 at 2:45:52 AM

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

by VectorLock

3/31/2026 at 10:28:23 AM

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

by zvqcMMV6Zcr

3/31/2026 at 1:44:38 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?

by Johnny_Bonk

3/31/2026 at 6:30:03 AM

The map uses OpenStreetMap as data source.

If you're not using the OSM API, there are also full exports of the complete dataset available at https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

by eliaspro

3/31/2026 at 5:50:21 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.

by topspin

3/31/2026 at 2:32:57 PM

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by NooneAtAll3

3/31/2026 at 9:52:50 AM

Massively slow

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

by iso1631

3/31/2026 at 4:58:40 AM

its like a military targeting map for our geopolitical adversaries

by ninininino

3/31/2026 at 9:41:29 AM

If all the schools are on google maps it makes it harder to claim "I thought it was a military base ... and even if it was a school the other guys definately did it"

Or we could just stop spending trillions bombing each other and get back to work.

by blitzar

3/31/2026 at 5:49:42 AM

Or domestic. I'm shocked this information is this available.

by CabSauce

3/31/2026 at 8:47:51 AM

It is simply difficult to hide. You can just go and look at the infrastructure, after all. I bet almost all the information is from OpenStreetmaps, and people just walked around and added all the power lines, substations and powerplants they saw by hand.

And sure, you can bury the cables, or you can try keeping the output of your powerplants secret. But then the infrastructure nerds (or foreign spies) just count coal hopper railway cars per day and analyze cooling tower dimensions.

by pbmonster

3/31/2026 at 12:55:47 PM

Yeah. I get that adversaries can capture their own high res satellite photos and determine this, but this is just handing it to them on a silver platter.

by reustle

3/31/2026 at 2:21:01 PM

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