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by mistrial9 1532 days ago
electrical power lines are "critical infrastructure" status in most countries; fifteen percent of countries worldwide do not publish official maps at all.. every country has protected information and publishing restrictions related to self-defense.
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The point was that this article had useless links in the article which were not pertinent to the specific topic, and it mentioned a map from a study, but it did not show or link to the map (or the study!).

Other commenters replied to me and linked to the study, which does have a low-res but useful map. That is all I wanted, and it should have been linked in the original article.

Paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365...

Map: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/9cf4b1...

Luckily, there's the OpenStreetMap-based Open Infrastructure Map: https://openinframap.org/
Are you saying publishing a map of power related infrastructure would be illegal in some countries?