<html><head></head><body>I agree that putting the building on the map should rank higher than giving it a lifecycle or damaged attribute that hard to assess from the image quality. <br><br>This is also the approach I recall from HOT disaster mapping. Roads and building from satellite, destruction details from ground crew. (Admittedly I might be wrong here).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 February 2020 6:44:30 pm AEDT, John Bryant <johnwbryant@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><i>Maybe swap across to LPI imagery & just map all the buildings
& other POI, without worrying about damage? That would be a huge
bonus as far as OSM is concerned, but wouldn't actually do anything at
all for the disaster recovery side of things?</i></div></blockquote><div> This seems like a productive idea to me... capturing buildings in bushfire-affected areas could produce a useful input to spatial analyses. I don't know what the agencies already have in this regard though.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 17:14, Phil Wyatt <<a href="mailto:phil@wyatt-family.com">phil@wyatt-family.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Some new imagery is being uploaded... not sure on resolution<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Cheers - Phil, <div>On the road with his iPad </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 8 Feb 2020, at 5:49 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com" target="_blank">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 16:24, Ewen Hill <<a href="mailto:ewen.hill@gmail.com" target="_blank">ewen.hill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sadly the Planet quality appears less than optimal.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're not wrong!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> If I look at the town of Cobargo where there were buildings lost just north east of the Narira Creek Highway crossing, I can't tell.what has been destroyed, damaged or otherwise. : <a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7898?task=591" target="_blank">https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7898?task=591</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, there's no way of telling if a building has been damaged - I'm been mapping for a while & I couldn't even pick them as buildings, without changing to a different set of imagery. Where I was just looking I couldn't even tell if the area had actually been burnt over - it all looked like normal dry grassland to me? </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think we really need to come up with a backup plan for this event and quietly push SSSI towards that. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe swap across to LPI imagery & just map all the buildings & other POI, without worrying about damage? That would be a huge bonus as far as OSM is concerned, but wouldn't actually do anything at all for the disaster recovery side of things?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We don't want people's first taste of OSM to be a poor one.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, & I agree with you that it won't be a good, first look :-( </div><div><br></div><div> Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div>
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