[talk-au] SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon - Sunday 9th Feb

[Andrew Davidson]

On 6/2/20 8:39 pm, Ewen Hill wrote:
>    The states have sent out a rapid impact assessment teams to all areas 
> now and have followed up with detailed analysis in most. We know what 
> has been damaged, destroyed and what was inhabited, what wasn't and what 
> other assets were damaged. We also know the structure type, bedroom 
> count etc. Any updates on Sunday are not going to help anyone in social 
> services, council, planning, asbestos removal. I honestly don't know 
> what benefit this will be and as Warin correctly stated, updated.

I agree. I was thinking about the utility of trying to map this stuff 
from aerial imagery when the groups that are responding will all ready 
have much better datasets. Australia is not Haiti or Nepal.

I can also understand that SSSI wants to do something to help, that's a 
very natural human emotion. I just don't think this is it.

> The removal of buildings and rubble including asbestos will take 
> significant time. What is there now, may not be there in 6-12 months and 
> the map will be out of date.

This is one of the biggest problems with the damaged=* tag. It needs to 
be updated regularly because we know that it's a temporary state, and 
who is going to do that?