Recently, Mapbox Globe was released.
The World Resources Institude releases an open dataset of global power plants. I thought that this would be a really fun dataset to explore, and an international dataset like this seems like a perfect match to experiment with Globe view!
The processing for this dataset is pretty simple - essentially just converting a .csv to a .geojson. This can all be found in processing.ipynb
If I had a bit more time, I'd tile the output data. However, the finalised geojson is simple enough that the tiling isn't all that important.
I'm pretty happy with the end result here! However, there's more work that could still be done:
- Graph capacity vs. generation
- Click on values in the legend to filter them out
Pass MAPBOX_API_KEY as an environment variable and run the build script.
MAPBOX_API_KEY=<KEY HERE> npm run build