[talk-au] OSM in Haiti

[Liz]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Liz wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
correction
http://www.opengeodata.org/2010/01/14/haiti-openstreetmap-response/
so lots of mapping gone into putting streets on the map
but also lots of marking destroyed buildings