tallpaul
Semi-retired Internet geek living with my wife and dog in Nairn, Scotland. When I’m well enough I’m trying to make the world a better place through the application of technology but I’m also the SNP councillor for Nairn & Cawdor which is taking up most of most of my time.
Seems fair…
We’re going to see a lot more of this down the line.
I’m vice-chair of the south planning applications committee on Highland Council and when they apply for a windfarm it’s usually for a limited life, and there’s planning conditions about restoring the land to its original state at the end but it’s pretty obvious that the direction of travel is to keep upgrading them. That’s why ScottishPower is pressing to streamline the planning process for existing windfarms.
But there are issues with upgrades, not least height. Over 150m they need a red light on the top of the tower, which makes them far more visually intrusive at night, so currently we’re seeing a lot of applications for 149.5m turbines.
We update it a lot. We also have a product (for walkers in the British Isles) called WayMaps (used by a variety of walking web sites in the UK and also our own demo site https://waymaps.the-hug.net/) which uses the geodata from OSM and other Open Data to produce our own map tiles. We love OSM.