Grid2Poster: An open-source tool for generating electrical grid infrastructure posters from OpenStreetMap data
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Summary
Grid2Poster is an open-source tool that generates print-ready posters of electrical grid infrastructure using OpenStreetMap data. It downloads and renders transmission lines for countries or continents using GeoPandas, OSMnx, and Matplotlib. The project supports countries, states, provinces, continents, and predefined regions, with data sourced from OpenStreetMap features tagged as power lines, cables, and substations. It is inspired by maptoposter and hosted on GitHub under the open-energy-transition organization.
Key quotes
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Transmission lines for a country or continent are downloaded and rendered with GeoPandas, OSMnx, and Matplotlib.
The project is heavily inspired and reused styling from maptoposter.
Grid2Poster supports countries, states, provinces and continents, as well as predefined regions.
Feature completeness depends on OpenStreetMap coverage in the selected country or region.
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