[Talk-ca] Flood Mapping in BC

[Martin Chalifoux]

I agree Bill that OSM should do it. But I also think it does not have the features to do it. Doing it with the existing taggging scheme is highly disruptive and ineffective. OSM would need a dynamic tagging layer or else it’s just a mess when you consider the ecosystem downstream of the OSM database itself. OSM has been designed to maps a static world. It lacks what he takes to track quickly changing data   

Martin Chalifoux
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> On Nov 17, 2021, at 20:11, William Denton <wtd at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On 17 November 2021, Joel wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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/).
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> Climate change will bring more and more disasters, and OSM is well poised to be the best at reflecting them as they happen.
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> Bill
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