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

[Phil Wyatt]

Some new imagery is being uploaded... not sure on resolution


Cheers - Phil, 
On the road with his iPad 

> On 8 Feb 2020, at 5:49 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 16:24, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sadly the Planet quality appears less than optimal.
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> You're not wrong!
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>> If I look at the town of Cobargo where there were buildings lost just north east of the Narira Creek Highway crossing, I can't tell.what has been destroyed, damaged or otherwise. :  https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7898?task=591
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> No, there's no way of telling if a building has been damaged - I'm been mapping for a while & I couldn't even pick them as buildings, without changing to a different set of imagery. Where I was just looking I couldn't even tell if the area had actually been burnt over - it all looked like normal dry grassland to me? 
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>> I think we really need to come up with a backup plan for this event and quietly push SSSI towards that.
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> Maybe swap across to LPI imagery & just map all the buildings & other POI, without worrying about damage? That would be a huge bonus as far as OSM is concerned, but wouldn't actually do anything at all for the disaster recovery side of things?
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>> We don't want people's first taste of OSM to be a poor one.
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> No, & I agree with you that it won't be a good, first look :-( 
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>   Thanks
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> Graeme
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