[Talk-ca] Flood Mapping in BC

[William Denton]

On 17 November 2021, Joel wrote:

> Numerous major highways have been washed out or blocked due to recent flooding 
> in BC. Does this community have any thoughts about reflecting these changes in 
> OSM? I assume most of these closures will be temporary, however are 
> significant and may last for months.

Mapping bridge outages and major washouts is certainly something OSM should 
show.  There's a great history of the map reflecting sudden disasters, for 
example the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team 
(https://www.hotosm.org/).

Climate change will bring more and more disasters, and OSM is well poised to be 
the best at reflecting them as they happen.

Bill

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William Denton
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Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada