[talk-au] Flood prone areas

[Craig Feuerherdt]

John,

Would it not be better to map the extent of the flood plain rather than tag
individual road segments? I know they have mapped the 'floodplain' across
Victoria and then categorised it into probabilities ie 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50
and 1:100 chance of flood. Obviously its another thing getting data out of
State departments but I would have thought this was a better way to go.

I agree there are valid cases where flood_prone=yes is an appropriate tag
for a road segment although at what level do you do this ie an individual
node on a road if it goes through a dip with a depth gauge through to a
segment if there is a long stretch of low road.

Craig

Flooding has disrupted mail deliveries in Queensland.


> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/05/3106734.htm


> I guess it might be useful after all to tag flood prone roads:



<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:flood_prone>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:flood_prone
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