MapYourGrid

We empower individuals, communities and nations around the world to map the global electrical grid.

This is the repository of the MapYourGrid website

Why?

Energy from fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to climate change, accounting for over 75 % of global greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigating away from fossil energy sources requires the rapid extension and modernization of the electrical grid, which is currently one of the main bottlenecks to decarbonising our energy.

Despite the urgent need to expand the global electricity grid, the industry has been unable to establish an open data standard for the exchange of transmission grid routing data and specifications across borders. In recent years, OpenStreetMap has established itself as the unofficial de facto standard in academia and industry for cross-border transmission and distribution grid data. For developing countries in particular, the quality and coverage of grid data is inadequate. Closing this gap is not only essential for providing stable energy supply to rural communities, it is also key to mitigating climate change, a key recommendation of the International Energy Agency's latest report:

Improve data reliability and availability to better assess and manage risks for clean energy projects in emerging market and developing economies.

Taking Stock to Taking Action: How to implement the COP28 energy goals

That's why we have launched this open initiative, working with the OpenStreetMap community, organisations and individuals around the world to not only create an open digital twin of the European grid, but also to expand the global coverage of the transmission grid in OpenStreetMap from around 70% to 98% over the next three years.

How you can get involved?

Your support can make a significant impact on closing the data gap in the electricity grid. The MapYourGrid initiative will empower you! Are you good at online research? Do you like programming? Do you want to recognise power towers and other electrical infrastructure on satellite images? Do you want to use this data for a climate mitigation or the electrification of rural communities? We can help you find the right contribution for your skills and experience:

When you make an edit, please use the #MapYourGrid in the changeset to help the initiative!

If you're eager to get started with transmission grid mapping in OpenStreetMap, check out the Grid Mapping Starter Kit and our community discord channel.

Contribute to this website

1. Install mkdocs material on your machine: bash pip install mkdocs-material mkdocs-glightbox

2. Clone this repository our your fork of this repository: bash git clone git@github.com:open-energy-transition/MapYourGrid.git

3. Create a branch to work on: bash git checkout -b "your-branch-name"

4. Edit the website. mkdocs material offers comprehensive documention.

5. Run the website on your machine: bash cd MapYourGrid mkdocs serve

6. Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser to see your changes. If you change a file, the website is automatically recreated.

7. Commit your changes and push: bash git add your-filename git commit -m "my commit message" git push origin your-branch-name

8. Create a pull request.

Related Repositories

The MapYourGrid Website combines resources from multiple repositories: 1. Awesome-Electric-Grid-Mapping 2. ColorMyGrid 3. osm-grid-definition 4. osm-wikidata Toolset 5. osmose-per-country 6. gem-per-country 7. KPI Tracker tools 8. osm-power-grid-map-analysis 9. ValidateMyGrid