[HOT] recording damage

[David William Bitner]

Sean,

I would certainly be happy to review tags and help build crosswalks between
the tags and other existing standards out there.

David

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:

> My best suggestion would be to start a Humanitarian Features page on the
> OSM wiki that copies the format of the Map Features page. I'd then collect
> as much of the existing discussion as you're willing to devote time to
> doing, and put it all on that page. In point of fact, I think this would be
> a tremendous service to HOT (unless anyone else feels otherwise and wants to
> pipe up).
>
> Sean, are you volunteering? :-D
>
> SDE
>
> On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Sean Horgan wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > It looks like the push to define Humanitarian OSM tags in the wiki
> stopped in February but from scouring the web, it looks like the HOT is very
> active (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog).
> >
> > Where is the right place to review the current damage/disaster-related
> tags?
> >
> > --
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:59, Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been in Galveston Texas for the last week and I've been trying to
> add some POIs as I've ventured around the island.  One thing I've run into
> is that some of facilities are either permanently destroyed or temporarily
> out-of-use due to storm damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008.  Little to no
> tagging of this damage exists.
> >
> > I've searched around trying to find some precedent for damage-related
> tags and found the following, all related to Haiti:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg26308.html -
> discussion on the talk mailing list
> >
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Haiti_Strategy_And_Proposal- Haiti proposal
> > http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/search.php?query=damage -
> tagstats on damage
> >
> > What are the best forums to both understand current practice as well as
> discuss tagging of damaged features, i.e. storms, earthquakes, riots,
> conflicts, etc?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
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