GMWID, GeoMermaids World Infrastructures Dataset: PREVIEW
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Worldwide power, telecoms, oil and gas, and water infrastructure from
OpenStreetMap, measured against and completed from authoritative open
sources. https://gmwid.geomermaids.com
A preview: layout, columns and values may still change.

Data
  (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database
  License (ODbL) 1.0: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
  This is a derived database and is itself available under the ODbL.
  Source: Geofabrik's top-level extracts (https://download.geofabrik.de/),
  as of:
    africa             2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    antarctica         2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    asia               2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    australia-oceania  2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    central-america    2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    europe             2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    north-america      2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    russia             2026-09-26T20:22:51Z
    south-america      2026-09-26T20:22:51Z

US power plants OSM does not have (origin = 'eia' in power_plant)
  U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric
  Generator Inventory (EIA-860M), August 2026
  https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/. Public domain (U.S.
  federal government work). Coverage of EIA's plants by OSM, and what
  was added: latest/_coverage.json.
  Outlines of the solar plants added: U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence
  Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Large-Scale Solar
  Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB), uspvdb_v4_0_20260414.geojson.
  https://energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb/. Public domain.

UK wells, platforms and pipelines OSM does not have: nsta/, NOT ODbL
  Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority
  and/or other third parties. Under the NSTA User Agreement
  (non-commercial use only), which is why they are not in latest/:
  see nsta/LICENSE.txt. How OSM compares: latest/_coverage.json.

Layers, attributes and derived values
  Follow the data model of Open Infrastructure Map
  (https://openinframap.org, code at github.com/openinframap/openinframap,
  BSD-style licence): its layers, the attributes its map serves, and its
  rules for voltages, outputs, solar estimates and pipeline categories.
  Not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Infrastructure Map.

The country and state columns
  Land: FAO GAUL 2024 level 1; state is the unit's name as a slug
  (texas, bayern)
  (https://parquetry.geomermaids.com/gaul/2024/ATTRIBUTION.txt).
    FAO. 2024. Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL).
    [Accessed on 27 September 2026]. https://data.apps.fao.org/?lang=en.
    Licence: CC-BY-4.0
  Offshore (state _offshore): Flanders Marine Institute (2024). Union of
  the ESRI Country shapefile and the Exclusive Economic Zones, via the
  Marine Regions WFS (MarineRegions:eez_land). https://www.marineregions.org.
  Licence: CC BY 4.0.
  High seas: country and state _intl.
  They are a convenience for filtering, assigned from one point on
  each feature. They are not a statement on any boundary or claim.