Energy and Transportation Infrastructure

The WSRRI spatial priorities were derived, in part, using TerrAdapt's human footprint model, which uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data on regional energy and transportation infrastructure. OSM is an open source global repository of infrastructure data that is updated daily by a world-wide community of volunteers collaborating to keep OSM up to date. The following OSM datasets are accessed by our workflow each year from Geofabric via their North American OSM data download portal:

• roads of various types that we aggregate into the following categories: freeways, primary roads, secondary roads, residential roads, and service roads

• railroads

• footpaths

• canals

• quarries

• campsites and campgrounds

• dams

• pipelines

• electrical power substations

• solar energy infrastructure (solar arrays)

• wind energy infrastructure (wind turbines)