On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 16:24, Ewen Hill <ewen.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sadly the Planet quality appears less than optimal. >
You're not wrong! > If I look at the town of Cobargo where there were buildings lost just > north east of the Narira Creek Highway crossing, I can't tell.what has been > destroyed, damaged or otherwise. : > https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7898?task=591 > No, there's no way of telling if a building has been damaged - I'm been mapping for a while & I couldn't even pick them as buildings, without changing to a different set of imagery. Where I was just looking I couldn't even tell if the area had actually been burnt over - it all looked like normal dry grassland to me? I think we really need to come up with a backup plan for this event and > quietly push SSSI towards that. > Maybe swap across to LPI imagery & just map all the buildings & other POI, without worrying about damage? That would be a huge bonus as far as OSM is concerned, but wouldn't actually do anything at all for the disaster recovery side of things? > We don't want people's first taste of OSM to be a poor one. > No, & I agree with you that it won't be a good, first look :-( Thanks Graeme
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