[talk-au] tagging burnt areas

[Warin]

On 27/1/20 11:13 pm, Ewen Hill wrote:

> I would only be replacing any known houses and outbuildings with 
> buildling=ruins. There are a number of old bridges that fall probably 
> under this category along railtrails etc.


I don't think much of the tag building=ruins. A church in ruins is still 
recognizable as an exchurch.

Much rather use the life cycle tagging, so building=church becomes 
ruined:building=church.


> however the bush and grasslands will regrow ... unless it happens to 
> reburn again this season.
>
>   In Victoria over 1000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed 
> however some areas are yet to be checked. This will change the fabric 
> of some Victorian towns. The Clifton Hill school with around 15 
> children may never be rebuilt with children now commuting to Bairnsdale.
>
>    All the other .infrastructure will probably return although 
> there is 5,500km of roads to be cleared of dangerous trees and some 
> crews are doing only 3km per day due to the dangerous state some trees 
> are in.
>
>   I would be looking at reverting any change-sets that have 
> brownfield/burnt other than the building=ruins
>
> Ewen
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 21:07, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com 
> <mailto:theswavu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:51 PM Andrew Harvey
>     <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         I have thought about if we should map burnt areas, it's tricky
>         because while it is surveyable, it changes quickly and the
>         point at when it changes to no longer burnt is subjective. For
>         those reasons I do think it's better to store this in another
>         database not OSM. There you can capture the burn date and
>         degree of the burn.
>
>
>      This was what I was thinking. You'd have to somehow tag when an
>     area was burnt and to what degree it was burnt. Not really
>     something I'd expect to see in OSM.
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> Ewen Hill
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