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Anonymous
Agree
Wed 15 May 2019 7:30PM

Don't forget the Renewable Obligation register (has site addresses and MW) and the Feed in Tariff register (admin region for smaller installations).

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Anonymous
Agree
Sat 18 May 2019 9:05AM

also add car electric charging points. There is clearly strong use case for including them - I can't find any mapping which includes them all.

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Anonymous
Agree
Wed 22 May 2019 8:35PM

I have been one of the proponents of this.* I'm still excited about it - there's feasible mapping to be done, and there are good uses for the data!
* https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-April/022724.html

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Anonymous
Disagree
Thu 20 Jun 2019 7:32PM

the tagging is not sorted out and there are better things to focus on mapping

GMD

Gregory Marler (former Director) Mon 24 Jun 2019 12:05PM

Here is the page to the project https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2019_Q3_Project:_Solar_Power

I remember someone talking about the importance of this exact data. "predicting how much solar energy we'll get on a particular day". I thought I had been told mapping solar panels could aid in reducing how much non-renewable plants are used on sunny days?
Presumably the National Grid are already doing that if they know the number of installations?
If our mapping would increase use of renewables, could someone add this to the "why" section of the project page. I might run a mapping event specifically for this project.

CM

Cj Malone Fri 4 Sep 2020 9:46AM

I think a good one would be to map defibs. Rob already has a tool to direct surveys. We can FOI for specific areas that haven't already been, and I've just reached out to SADSUK to see if they have any data we could use.

CM

Cj Malone Sat 5 Sep 2020 2:02PM

It seems there is no country wide defib dataset, so with the right push OSM could be that. They already list "Open Source Map by Dr Robert Whittaker" as one of the fragmented maps they recommend, we could probably work together with them.

HD

Huw Diprose Sat 5 Sep 2020 10:22AM

I've been looking over some data released under FOI recently. I'm concerned a lot of it seems.to be unlicenced...

Has anyone encountered what we can / can't do with FOI releases?

Best I can tell I need to follow up on a release with a "reuse of public data 2015". They'd need to consider my request, and it gives me a chance to ask them to make it OGL.

Are we likely to run into this issue with defibs and FOIs?

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Cj Malone Sat 5 Sep 2020 1:50PM

FOI data is not licensed so that it could be imported or integrated into OSM (ODbL), but the current stance is that using that data to direct independent surveys, then adding what you've seen is OK.

You could use the FOI to request it being released under the OGL, but I doubt you'd get much traction, they try to do and give the bare minimum. They even drag there feet with people why use pseudonyms. I think it would be better for us to request Open Data at an individual or department that would be more inclined to.