Organised Editing/Activities/Oil and Gas Pipelines

Rationale

Global Energy Monitor is working to record accurate geometries for fossil fuel transmission pipelines all over the world in the Global Oil and Gas Infrastructure Trackers. As part of this effort, we are contributing pipeline routes wherever they may be missing or misaligned in OpenStreetMap.

This project will be initially geographically scoped to the United States, but may expand if freely-licensed data sets are found elsewhere.

Community consultation

The project was announced to the community forum on January 17, 2024.

Timeframe

The mapping activity will take place from January to March of 2024.

Tools and data sources

The mapping team edits remotely, primarily using JOSM, with Bing and Esri as aerial imagery sources, as well as public-domain US government data sets.

Participants/Contact

• Charmaine Dalisay
  • charmaine_dalisay (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
  • charmaine.dalisay@globalenergymonitor.org
• Baird Langenbrunner
  • heyitsbaird (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
  • baird.langenbrunner@globalenergymonitor.org
• Clay Smalley
  • clay_c@gem (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
  • clay.smalley@globalenergymonitor.org

Measuring our success

See all the pipelines we've mapped with this Overpass query.

Training/instructions

The mapping team will JOSM to map pipelines in the United States. This involves aligning the pipeline to aerial imagery and government data sources, and editing the following tags:

• man_made=pipeline
  • usage=transmission
  • substance=*
  • name=*
  • operator=*
  • operator:wikidata=*
  • location=*