Philippe DuchesneFeb 13, 2024
Russ Garrett
Winner of today's award for going beyond the call of duty in geodata publication is Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks. When asked to provide open data on their power network, they have simply provided the entire unredacted contents of their GIS.
Feb 10, 2024 at 11:53amWeb
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 10, 2024
Bonus mention to whatever system at UK Power Networks is responsible for spitting out files with a field named "betr_spann" (that's presumably Betriebsspannung, or "operating voltage" in English...)
Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Feb 10, 2024
@russss glad that I'm not alone in delving into electricity arcana on a Saturday evening ;-)
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 10, 2024
@bert_hubert this is mostly me trying to get some actual work finished on a Saturday because I spent all week working on the festival that I don't get paid for...
Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Feb 10, 2024
@russss ah, didn't know you had actual business in electricity! Good stuff. And thanks for the free work on the festival ;-)
Show threadJamesBFeb 10, 2024
@russss Dang I wish that was Scottish Power.
Show threadSamLR/CassFeb 10, 2024
@russss 1) I too want to know lengths to femto (I think) accuracy
2) installed 1st Jan 1900.. uh huh
3) tag yourself, I'm "status: existing"
Show threadStuart Feb 13, 2024
@russss Is this on their open data portal or a FOI request or something else? Is there a link? I'm interested because another DNO has started putting their "open" data (nowhere near at the level of that) behind a registration wall.
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 13, 2024

@slowe it's free to download here, without registration:

https://data.ssen.co.uk/@ssen-distribution/distribution_line_substation

A number of them now require registration but it's all still CC-licensed once you're registered...

Distribution GIS Network Line and Shapefile Data - Data Asset - SSEN Distribution Data Portal

Shape file data containing our geographical position and attribution of the electricity network covering the SEPD and SHEPD DNO areas. A link is also provided for the Electric Office Web Portal for Independent Connections Providers (ICPs) to to view, query and print map based GIS Data, showing the location and associated data for circuits, cables and overhead lines across the Distribution Network at all voltage levels from EHV -> LV to assist in the planning of connections. Object information is drawn from EO to show selected asset details such as operating voltages. _These maps cannot be relied upon as they are indicative only and while we make every effort as to their accuracy, the position of any cables may have changed. In addition there may be private cables which are not shown on the plan. Before carrying out work of any kind within vicinity of any of the cables, you must carry out a search on Linesearch https://lsbud.co.uk/_

Show threadStuart Feb 13, 2024
@russss That is amazing. I'm slightly stunned that they've published all that and that they can do it under CC-BY.
Show threadRihards OlupsFeb 13, 2024
@russss Mmm. Is the local #OpenStreetMap community already figuring out the licence and working on a potential import? :)
Show threadRuss GarrettFeb 13, 2024
@richlv yeah that's also me. And I have not been able to get a license waiver on most of them unfortunately... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Power_networks/Great_Britain#Data_Sources
Power networks/Great Britain - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Show threadRihards OlupsFeb 13, 2024
@russss Ahh dang. All the best luck with that, sometimes all that's needed is finding the one person in the organisation that cares.