Hi all
That's great news. By the way, I have some regions to propose, if
anyone would like to be steered:
With my solar PV colleagues, we've discussed targeting a couple of
specific regions. We're looking at the Midlands (because so much good
mapping has happened there already) - but also the area around Exeter,
because there's quite a lot of "reverse flow" (i.e. solar generation)
in that region, and it's a useful case-study area for people working
with the National Grid ESO.
Exeter itself has been mapped to a good extent (30%), but it and its
surrounding areas could take more: Teignbridge (1%), Mid Devon (22%),
East Devon (4%). If anyone fancies looking over those regions, it
could be v beneficial.
Really great seeing all this mapping. I'm hoping to be able to publish
some academic analysis of it all, soonish. - I'll certainly let you
know when I've done so!
Best
Dan
Op do 2 jul. 2020 om 19:16 schreef Gregory Williams
:
>
> Thanks Jerry, and thanks to everyone that's continued to contribute
> more coverage.
>
> The next quarter's update to the FiT register should be published in
> the next few days. So I hope to find time to update the site to use
> that soon.
>
> I continue to be amazed at the steady progress in the coverage. Though,
> as you say, there are quite a few areas where the imagery either just
> isn't clear enough to untangle the ambiguities, or is clear but isn't
> recent enough.
>
> Personally, I've recently been trying to concentrate on a mixture of
> areas with less than 10% coverage, and on the lightly-mapped LSOA
> hotspots that my tool picked out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gregory
>
> On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 18:56 +0100, SK53 wrote:
> > We passed a couple of milestones a few days ago:
> > 20% of FIT totals
> > 170k individual panels mapped (excluding those in solar farms)
> > In terms of coverage there are now well over 50 LAs (all in England &
> > Wales) with more than 50% of solar installations mapped, with around
> > 10 exceeding 80%. Areas with good coverage are:
> > Scottish Central Belt: helped no doubt by more atomic data much of
> > the Central Belt is around 20% mapped.
> > North-East (former Tyne & Wear): Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and
> > North & South Tyne.
> > North Wales: Conwy, Flint, Denbigh & Wrexham. Most panels in the
> > first three are in the coastal resort towns, but reasonable rural
> > coverage.
> > North West: recent activity has been around Preston, Blackburn Wigan
> > and Chorley.
> > East Midlands: mainly Leics & Notts. Improved & recent imagery for
> > Leicester made a huge difference.
> > West Midlands: Warwickshire, Worcestershire & Herefordshire are
> > roughly in the 20-30% zone. ALso extending into the South Wales
> > valleys. brianboru's detailed mapping in the latter is another good
> > index of rural coverage.
> > South Coast: Bournemouth area & Southampton, all at over 50%
> > More rural areas continue to be challenging: older imagery which is
> > often difficult to interpret doesn't help. I've experimented in
> > places where every building is already mapped by stepping through
> > each building, but still one may only find 20% of the number in FIT.
> >
> > London and immediately adjacent areas also have relatively little
> > mapped. Imagery can be a problem, but also finding panels in older
> > and/or larger housing with more complex roof shapes is hard.
> >
> > One thing I'm continually amazed at is how many places have buildings
> > mapped, which is very helpful for this task. However in a couple of
> > places: Ribble Valley & Leicester - it is clear that better imagery
> > would allow existing building outlines to be improved, but also that
> > plenty of buildings have been extended, demolished or replaced. This
> > type of activity lends itself to combined work using tools such as
> > Tasking Manager or MapRoulette and might be worth considering in the
> > future for a quarterly project.
> >
> > There's still no shortage of places where a lot of panels can be
> > mapped quickly, although more systematic mapping of a single LA often
> > requires a couple of passes over imagery.
> >
> > Looking forward to achieving the next milestones of 200k & 25%.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > Personally, I'm concentrating on areas adjacent to the existing well-
> > mapped (50%+) areas with the aim of extending these areas.
> >
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