[Tagging] recording damage

[Sean Horgan]

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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