[Talk-ca] Flood Mapping in BC

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 17:49, Andrew Lester <a-lester at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I would be in favour of mapping some of the closures, but not all of them. For example, Highway 1 here on Vancouver Island is currently partially closed, but I expect the damage to be fixed within the next week or two at most (or at least fixed to the point of the highway being usable in both directions). That's certainly too short to make OSM changes. On the other hand, Highway 5 could be closed for many months. Based on some of the images I'm seeing, it could be many, many months for some parts of it. That may be worth mapping.
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> I think we should wait until the waters recede and authorities have a better idea of timelines, and then we can decide whether any closures will be long enough to be worth mapping. Given more time, we'll also get a better sense of where exactly the damage has occurred and what might need to be edited. I know the bridge at Juliet is out and I think there's a washout near Othello, but I'm not completely certain where some of the other damaged portions of Highway 5 are.

This makes a lot of sense to me.

--Jarek