Open Infrastructure Map

I find this site so fascinating, seeing how all the massive power lines are hooked up to far-away power plants and gradually have their voltage stepped down as they connect to consumers. All the undersea cables and pipelines I didn't know about.

Nice! I can finally locate LA's Scattergood-Olympic underground transmission line that was repaired in 1989 to much engineering prowess [1]. https://openinframap.org/#10.58/33.9452/-118.3529 I love infrastructure engineering. There's so much going on that allows us to take things for granted. Even the 2021 Texas power grid failure fared relatively well for how close it skirted absolute disaster. [1] https://practical.engineering/blog/2021/9/16/repairing-under... (I should give Grady more money) People here may…

This is just power lines tagged in Open Street Maps. [Edit: as comments noted power is just the default view, this is still just human curated OSM data] If you want telecom https://www.infrapedia.com/ is the go to source, but it requires a login. Carriers generally don't want their route maps publicly accessible unless you are committed to regularly updating them.

Now let's overlay this with heat maps that represent investment over time.