Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 David Murn : > Last time I checked, a bushfire doesnt change the geographical location > of *everything*, like a 7.0 earthquake does.  Im sure there were OSM > updates in Australia after the fires of damaged infrastructure, but we Damaged infrasturcture is only one issue, having accurate

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir : > Technological Disasters". It did get activated for the Australian > bushfires but the USGS were the only ones to act on it and there's no > published imagery: > http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-244 If I

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread Liz
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Liz wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, David Murn wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 06:56 +1000, John Smith wrote: > > > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft : > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_ > > > >Re sponse > > > > http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/201

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread Liz
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, David Murn wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 06:56 +1000, John Smith wrote: > > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft : > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Re > > >sponse http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ > > > > I'm not trying to

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 06:56 +1000, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft : > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response > > http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ > > I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti...

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft : >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response >> http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ > > I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti... > b

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread John Smith
2010/1/15 : > 1. mapping does exist in the first place which is stored off-site (ie > internationally) Yes, but up to date imagery gives allows us to create up to date maps, which gives emergency services better information so they can come up with better plans to deal with disasters and better p

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread edodd
> 2010/1/14 Jim Croft : >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response >> http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ > > I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti... > but nothing like this occurred when Australia had tho

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread John Smith
2010/1/14 Jim Croft : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response > http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti... but nothing like this occurred when Australia had those really

[talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Croft
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tol