Acquiring knowledge on mapping of electrical power grids: my participation in the MapYourGrid virtual meeting

The Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development - IVIDES.org® participated in “Mapping Together”, the virtual meeting of the MapYourGrid project

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The Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development - IVIDES.org® attended the virtual meeting of the MapYourGrid project, represented by its Chairwoman, Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto, who participated in the meeting to learn about the project and understand its infrastructure and logical model.

The overall objective of the meeting was to demonstrate the structure of Wikidata and discuss improvements to the integration between the MapYourGrid web map, available at https://mapyourgrid.org/, and the Wikidata and Wikipedia structures, which are used to document objects related to the power distribution network mapped using OpenStreetMap.

You can see here the mental model of a workflow to this connection which was elaborated by Norman, Lacombe and other meeting attendees.

The connection with Wikidata is one of the MapYourGrid project’s strategies and aims to link objects mapped in OSM to their corresponding Wikipedia pages. You can follow the short guide to see what’s missing in your country and then map those on OSM.

The organizers are committed to empowering individuals, communities, and nations around the world to map their countries’ power grids. They invite interested individuals to participate in the next meeting, which will take place in two weeks; you can view the project agenda.

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