On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:33:24AM +0000, Donal Hunt wrote: > I would agree with the view that such statuses should be managed outside of > the OSM datastore. Organisations with interest of doing this may already be > using products that rely on GIS data from various sources. > > For those designing apps, they can track things like damage, repairs, etc > and tie that meta data to a OSM node / way / relation ID. > > Is there an existing policy regarding data types that should not be added > to OSM but tracked separately? Are there tools to support teams needing to > so this?
Maybe Key:wikidata [1] and Key:wikipedia [2] could do the job? [1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia jiri > Donal > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 10:06 Russell Deffner, <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> > wrote: > > > Just a quick note; HOT does not formally do damage tagging, mainly because > > no tagging schema exists. In the past, members of HOT tried various tagging > > but results for remote damage assessment were poor. > > > > I personally would be glad to see a community driven tagging schema > > developed but if not we (HOT) will need to document what we come up with > > for usage in disaster response and recovery. > > > > One glaring issue has been that typically the tags persist much longer > > than the damage. > > > > =Russ > > > > > On Feb 6, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > It looks like HOT is using the tag 'damage' for something. It is not > > documented as to what it means. Further is this information kept current or > > just added and forgotten? In at least one case the tag goes back to 2011. > > > > > > > > > When will HOT start to document what tags they are using, and what they > > are used for on the OSM wiki? This is not good behavior for HOT in OSM. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > HOT mailing list > > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
