On 6 January 2011 07:10, Craig Feuerherdt <craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, > Would it not be better to map the extent of the flood plain rather than tag > individual road segments? I know they have mapped the 'floodplain' across > Victoria and then categorised it into probabilities ie 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50 > and 1:100 chance of flood. Obviously its another thing getting data out of > State departments but I would have thought this was a better way to go. > I agree there are valid cases where flood_prone=yes is an appropriate tag > for a road segment although at what level do you do this ie an individual > node on a road if it goes through a dip with a depth gauge through to a > segment if there is a long stretch of low road.
I have nothing against using polygons, however the reason I wrote a tag with respect to roads is this information is more readily available to those doing surveys in the form of the water height markers. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
