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

[John Bryant]

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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?*
>
 This seems like a productive idea to me... capturing buildings in
bushfire-affected areas could produce a useful input to spatial analyses. I
don't know what the agencies already have in this regard though.

On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 17:14, Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com> wrote:

> Some new imagery is being uploaded... not sure on resolution
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> 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:
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>> 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.
>>
>
> 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?
>
>
>> We don't want people's first taste of OSM to be a poor one.
>>
>
> No, & I agree with you that it won't be a good, first look :-(
>
>   Thanks
>
> Graeme
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