Welcome to the ESDL MapEditor documentation

Note

This documentation is work in progress and far from finished. New sections will be added in the near future. Whenever questions or feedback is received from end users, we’re trying to update this documentation on the fly. So don’t hesitate to contact us, whenever you run into problems.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The ESDL MapEditor user interface
  • Top level menus
  • Layer control
• ESDL - Energy System Description Language
• Basic tasks in the ESDL MapEditor
  • Creating an energy system description
  • Adding assets, areas and potentials
  • Adding assets from the Energy Data Repository
  • Editing asset properties
  • Moving assets and changing asset shapes
  • Removing assets
  • Connecting assets
  • Removing a connection
  • Defining and setting energy carriers
  • Assigning profiles
• ESDL MapEditor features
  • Asset Draw Toolbar
  • Profile manager
  • Boundary service
  • Building information
  • Building editor
  • Visualizing KPIs
  • Comparing scenarios
  • Notes
  • WMS layer data
  • Shapefile import
  • Animation of loads over time
  • Configuring external ESDL services
  • Workflow definition
• External ESDL Services
  • Calliope - Spatial optimization
  • ESSIM - The Energy System Simulator
  • ETM - The Energy Transition Model
  • PandaPower - Loadflow calculations
  • PICO
  • VESTA
  • EPS - Energy Potential Scan
• Example workflows
  • Exploring spatial possibilities for large scale wind and solar
  • Exploring rooftop PV panels potential
  • Importing search areas
• Functional architecture

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page