<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I agree Bill that OSM should do it. But I also think it does not have the features to do it. Doing it with the existing taggging scheme is highly disruptive and ineffective. OSM would need a dynamic tagging layer or else it’s just a mess when you consider the ecosystem downstream of the OSM database itself. OSM has been designed to maps a static world. It lacks what he takes to track quickly changing data <br><br><div dir="ltr">Martin Chalifoux<div><b>E</b> martin.chalifoux@icloud.com</div><div><b>C</b> 514-233-9701</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 17, 2021, at 20:11, William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On 17 November 2021, Joel wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Numerous major highways have been washed out or blocked due to recent flooding in BC. Does this community have any thoughts about reflecting these changes in OSM? I assume most of these closures will be temporary, however are significant and may last for months.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Mapping bridge outages and major washouts is certainly something OSM should show. There's a great history of the map reflecting sudden disasters, for example the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (https://www.hotosm.org/).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Climate change will bring more and more disasters, and OSM is well poised to be the best at reflecting them as they happen.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Bill</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>William Denton</span><br><span>https://www.miskatonic.org/</span><br><span>Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.</span><br><span>Toronto, Canada</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Talk-ca mailing list</span><br><span>Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</span><br><span>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>