OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped(opengridworks.com) |
OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped(opengridworks.com) |
Completely inaccurate, claiming the uk is currently producing 115GW of electricity for example
If you're not using the OSM API, there are also full exports of the complete dataset available at https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
At this point I'm convinced all these globe apps are copying the same examples from somewhere and inheriting the same gimmick.
Bad mouthing others hard work is not encouraged, but when I and others point out this behavior, it actually gets modded up. So yes, you should feel confident that default off is the right choice.
Code 11
Or we could just stop spending trillions bombing each other and get back to work.
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.
A higher amount of distribution lines and substations are underground in dense urban cores and some residential areas, but there’s plenty of above-ground electrical distribution as well.
It’s akin to trying to hide how many skyscrapers exist in the US, they’re highly visible anyways, might as well publish the info so people and companies that live and operate in the US can take advantage of it.
The US government itself publishes more or less the same information: https://www.eia.gov/maps/