> > *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?* > This seems like a productive idea to me... capturing buildings in bushfire-affected areas could produce a useful input to spatial analyses. I don't know what the agencies already have in this regard though.
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 17:14, Phil Wyatt <p...@wyatt-family.com> wrote: > Some new imagery is being uploaded... not sure on resolution > > > Cheers - Phil, > On the road with his iPad > > On 8 Feb 2020, at 5:49 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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