Hi all I'd like to let you know about a recent and good opendata improvement in France regarding power networks we use to map in OSM. Two biggest distribution grid operators in metropolitan France, Enedis and Geredis, had released under Open License both overhead and underground network maps
You may browse them here https://www.enedis.fr/cartographie-des-reseaux-denedis http://www.geredis.fr/open-data I've been involved in this seek of open data for years and found key insiders that understood the benefits of opening their datasets. Until now, community had pushed approx 800k poles and dozen of thousand km of overhead lines to convince operators it makes sense to check GIS against ground data and make it freely available. As a result, 800k distribution substations are now processed by osmose to enable anyone to integrate them directly on appropriate buildings It's not the first time such efforts are made. Power substations imports has been seen in Poland recently and maybe in other countries which is good news. This complete the already available overhead/underground French transmission grid map released by RTE in early 2017 https://opendata.reseaux-energies.fr/explore/dataset/lignes-souterraines-rte/map/?disjunctive.etat&disjunctive.tension&location=15,43.31032,5.38377&basemap=f91575 Finally, there is still approximately 100 DSO companies remaining to convince to join this effort. They cover less than 5% of metropolitan land (for ~200k subscribers) to reach 100% of existing networks. All the best François
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