[Talk-ca] Flood Mapping in BC

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 20:49, Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca
<talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 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

A small correction perhaps. OSM itself is perfectly capable of dealing
with quickly changing data. So are many of data users: if you make an
edit, you can often see it reflected on openstreetmap-carto tiles
within a few minutes. As another example, OsmAnd+, despite being in
principle an offline viewer and router, can get hourly updates from
the database. It is some users of the OSM database - some parts of the
ecosystem - that lack what it takes to deal with changing data.

--Jarek