We are currently launching a small mapping campaign focusing on adding hydro power data to #OpenStreetMap. Would you like to join us? Get in touch to become part of this engineering masterpiece. #MapYourGrid
13.01.2026 09:34 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
All the lines mapped my the MapYourGrid Team in 2025
In 2025, our team mapped 2.2% of global grid, focusing on hard regions in Africa, Latin America & Asia. The wider #OpenStreetMap community added 3.4% mostly in US, Europe & China. Our Impact: 1.7k power plants, 300k+ towers, 110k km of lines, 9.5k substations, 536k edits. See all our lines here:
31.12.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Have you ever wondered which country has the largest electrical transmission grid? Thanks to #OpenStreetMap, which covers 75% of the global transmission grid, we can now creating wonderful plots like this. Are you interested in using this data or contributing to it? Please contact #mapyourgrid
29.12.2025 15:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Data Quality: The Impact on Energy System Planning
MapYourGrid team is bringing together actors of power grids mapping in OpenStreetMap and power system modelling experts at PyPSA Earth.
Join our Webinar at Jan 8 from 5pm to 7pm GMT+1 👉 Data Quality: The Impact on Energy System Planning. Bringing together actors of power grids mapping in OpenStreetMap and power system modelling experts at PyPSA Earth and @oetenergy.bsky.social Register for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/data-quali...
22.12.2025 08:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We had an excellent training with dvlp.energy today. They are developing a GIS platform to support the early-stage planning of energy assets, such as solar and battery systems, in Germany. CEO Oliver Schmidt: "#OpenStreetMap is the only high-quality data available to us for Germany."
#MapYourGrid
16.12.2025 12:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MapYourGrid
We empower individuals, communities and nations around the world to map the electrical grid.
Humans for the Grid: Why the world’s most critical infrastructure still needs human mappers 🌍⚡
Discover why human mappers in OpenStreetMap are the cornerstone of the global energy data ecosystem. Read our latest blog post. 👉 mapyourgrid.org/blog/2025120...
#mapyourgrid #openstreetmap #opendata
10.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
MapYourGrid
We empower individuals, communities and nations around the world to map the electrical grid.
Humans for the Grid: Why the world’s most critical infrastructure still needs human mappers 🌍⚡
Discover why human mappers in OpenStreetMap are the cornerstone of the global energy data ecosystem. Read our latest blog post. 👉 mapyourgrid.org/blog/2025120...
#mapyourgrid #openstreetmap #opendata
10.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#Graphicoftheweek: The UK has sharply downgraded near-term expectations for engineered carbon removals📉
Our chart shows the scale of this shift, highlighting the need to focus on delivering proven climate solutions like renewables and electrification⚡
https://ember-energy.org/
02.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
💡2 in 5 Africans live without electricity, on a continent rich in #SolarEnergy. The solution? Simpler than you think.
Read Anita Otubu's insights via the Oxford Climate Alumni Network: www.oxfordclimatealumni.org/post/africa-...
02.12.2025 14:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The world’s first open and free database which tracks the high-voltage line length of almost every country’s grid is finished, which shows a significant underestimation of global line lengths. Check out our blog: mapyourgrid.org/blog/2025112...
28.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The world’s first open and free database which tracks the high-voltage line length of almost every country’s grid is finished, which shows a significant underestimation of global line lengths. Check out our blog: mapyourgrid.org/blog/2025112...
28.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An image of a popup on Open Infrastructure Map showing a new icon linking to Global Energy Monitor
There's now a @wikidata property for Global Energy Monitor links, and Open Infrastructure Map now displays this link when available.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13333
01.03.2025 17:59 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An image of the JOSM OpenStreetMap editor showing power infrastructure highlighted in the Open Infrastructure Map colour scheme.
The Open Infrastructure Map JOSM style has been updated to render voltages for substations, and handle DC and railway traction frequencies.
Find it in the Map Paint Style preferences under Open Infrastructure Map.
22.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Nighttime lights projected on a globe.
The nighttime lights layer has been updated with data from 2024. The colour scale has changed a bit as the source data format has changed.
https://openinframap.org/#3.22/34.4/35.68/N
24.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The first ever in-person #MapYourGrid meeting took place at State of the Map Europe in Dundee. Thank you, #SotMEU2025, for giving us the opportunity to run a one-hour workshop. A recording will be posted soon. @openinframap.org @russ.garrett.co.uk #OpenStreetMap #openenergy
18.11.2025 08:28 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We just finished a fantastic Pioneer Mapping session with MyOSM from Myanmar. From tools such as Osmose and Mapillary, to connecting difficult lines to substations, we had a lot of fun! Are you looking for training on how to #MapYourGrid? Just let us know! #OpenStreetMap #energy #renewables
05.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by MapYourGrid
MapYourGrid tutorial webinar
You can now watch the webinar we had last week with the YouthMappers on our channel! 🗼 This is a perfect video to watch for understanding the importance of grid mapping and how to do it.
Link: youtu.be/9XTW8qfFdo8
28.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Explore “Awesome Electrical Grid Mapping” created by #MapYourGrid & Open Energy Transition: 300+ datasets & maps from almost every country 🌍 OpenStreetMap shines as the only consistent global GIS source 🔗 mapyourgrid.org/global-grid-...
#energy #opendata #openstreetmap #opensource #electricalgrid
27.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
We celebrated our partnership with the @youthmappers.bsky.social yesterday, with a fantastic webinar on power grid mapping. If you want to join us and learn how to map your country's grid, let us know! #OpenStreetMap #energy #collaboration
24.10.2025 07:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We had an amazing Electrical Grid Mapping Starter Kit session today with our friends at MyOSM in Myanmar. Are you looking for training on how to #MapYourGrid? Just let us know! #OpenStreetMap #energy #renewables
23.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⭐ Welcome to our MapYourGrid Bluesky! We will be posting mapping stories, successes, facts, blogs and anything related to power grid mapping in OpenStreetMap.
But first, have a look at our "Behind the Scenes" blog: mapyourgrid.org/blog/2025090...
22.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Onafhankelijk verband van professioneel en hobbygeïnteresseerden in groot elektriciteitstransport.
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Ingénieur-docteur en aménagement du territoire. Co-fondateur de Dynartio.
Parle de vélo, de cartographie, d’open data, d'urbanisme, de métabolisme territorial et un peu de politique...
Visualising the world's infrastructure.
https://openinframap.org
[bridged from https://en.osm.town/@OpenInfraMap on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Energy data nerd at infrageomatics.com & @openinframap.org, festival operations nerd at emfcamp.org, board member at limehouselabs.org. (he/they)
I'm mostly active on Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@russss
https://russ.garrett.co.uk
Founder CEO, PhD Engineer.
De-risking the energy transition.
Innovating insights & data driven decisions.
Enabling shared open energy systems models analytics frameworks.
Leveraging 50 years of institutional knowledge in the #IEA #ETSAP #TIMES code.
Infrastructures, Réseaux d'utilités, #Openstreetmap - Télécoms, énergie, eaux.
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UN Mappers is a community of mappers supporting UN field activities with open data. UN Mappers is part of the UN Maps initiative. 🇺🇳 Become a #UNMapper!
OpenStreetMap US is a nonprofit organization that supports and grows the OpenStreetMap project in the US.
https://openstreetmap.us/
A non-profit software company aiming for fast and reliable energy transition globally.
We empower energy planners and decision-makers with energy transition studies, flexible open-source platforms, and expert training and support.
Posts new entries to https://OpenSustain.tech/ as well as updates to the open source community services we build on top of it, such as https://ClimateTriage.com/ or https://OpenClimate.fund/.
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WRI is a global research organization working to improve people’s lives, protect #nature, and halt #climatechange. 🌍📊
👉 Learn more: https://go.wri.org/mmTUco
SEforALL works in partnership with the UN and world leaders to drive faster action towards #SDG7 in line with the Paris Agreement.
Global energy think tank accelerating the clean energy transition with data and policy #CleanPower info@ember-energy.org
https://ember-energy.org/
Building an open guide to the world’s energy system.
🔗: https://globalenergymonitor.org/
The Official YouthMappers global network of student-led, faculty-mentored chapters. We don’t just build maps. We build mappers.
ClimateClub is a climate change and environment-related channel that is based on academic literature to offer accurate, important and interesting videos. Founded by Andreas Hernandez Denyer
https://youtube.com/@theclimateclub
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