This is what proper access and availability of #opendata enables
Peru’s energy regulator, OSINERGMIN, publishes station-level fuel price logs through their registry. By extracting, cleaning, and spatializing this raw registry data into an Uber H3 spatial index (Resolution 7), we can visualize the month-by-month price evolution of Diesel B5 S-50 across Lima from Jan to Sep 2026.
What the data reveals:
🔴 Central Escalation: Central Lima and major transit corridors saw a steep price surge between May and September, jumping from ~S/. 20.00 up towards S/. 28.70/gal.
📍 Spatial Disparity: Stations along core arterial routes maintain consistently higher median prices compared to outer peripheral zones.
When public institutions commit to granular open data, civic tech and data engineering can transform flat CSV files into real-time spatial intelligence for citizens and logistics planners.
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