[talk-au] OSM in Haiti

[Liz]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, David Murn wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 06:56 +1000, John Smith wrote:
> > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>:
> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Re
> > >sponse http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/
> >
> > I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti...
> > but nothing like this occurred when Australia had those really bad
> > fires recently.
> 
> Last time I checked, a bushfire doesnt change the geographical location
> of *everything*, like a 7.0 earthquake does.  Im sure there were OSM
> updates in Australia after the fires of damaged infrastructure, but we
> didnt have roads and buildings changing their geographical coordinates
> with the ground shifting.
> 
> David
> 
Most of the mapping effort appears to be marking destroyed buildings. The 
original mapping isn't apparently good enough to be sure if things have 
shifted a couple of metres.