[Tagging] RFC Update - Hazard Proposal - rock/land fall/slide

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 01:47:51 UTC 2020


I poked into the existing usages of hazard=landslide, and they seem to
mostly be on hiking trails or at best track roads, rather than regular
roads.  I don't think anyone would quibble with tagging a landslide hazard
on this [1] for example.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landslide_area.JPG

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:26 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 01:05, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 1:09 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's not to say we don't have landslides in the UK, but it appears
>>> we don't construct roads in places where they are anticipated to
>>> happen.
>>>
>>
>> The idea of "we don't build where the rocks might fall in the road"
>> doesn't work all that well when every mountain pass poses the same risk.
>>
>
> We have quite a lot of falling/fallen rocks hazards.  We seem happy to
> build
> roads there.  Not so many roads by landslide hazards.  Apart from a few
> by colliery spoil tips, but there was no anticipated landslide hazard with
> those.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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