OpenStreetMap power circuits evolution

Dear all,

As I am contributing in the Oh my grid! initiative (website) lead by Open Energy Transition, I’m pleased to introduce this attempt to harmonize practices about power circuits modelling in OpenStreetMap.

It is an undergoing proposal about which we currently seek for comments. It will then be submitted for voting among the OpenStreetMap community members.

It aims to provide a long term and sustainable approach to model power circuits linking substations based on existing openstreetmap knowledge about physical power lines, ground surveys and available public data.
It cares about OpenStreetMap community principles like verifiability.

As it may be important knowledge for power data consumers and open modelers, your comment are more than welcome.
It’s possible to discuss it here, or directly in the wiki Talk page associated to the proposal.
Feel free to ask questions to solve any unclear point about that work.

Best regards

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Hello everyone

As important comments rose form the first voting attempt, another version of the proposal is now submitted to vote on the updated page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Power_circuits_routing

The choice has been made to remove physical properties (reactance, inductance…) from OSM perimeter. They will be handled outsite with the help of official refs allowing to link to available static grid models, in planning software.

We are looking forward to know your opinion about it.

Thank you @robbie.morrison for your kind comment

Best regards

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