Very interesting, let me talk to my coworkers and get back to you on that. Perhaps the Japanese OSM community would have some ideas.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:59 PM Jonathan Schleuss <jschle...@me.com> wrote: > Thanks, Robert. > > I do have some structural information about some types of earthquake-risk > buildings. We have a database of "dingbats" that Los Angeles city is > mandating be retrofitted or proved safe over the next few years. These are > apartment buildings with parking underneath the dwelling spaces, which are > supported by small poles. A lot of these collapsed during the last major > quake in the 90s. > > Adding this has come up in meetings before. I haven't spent too much time > thinking about it. I'd love any ideas and suggestions. > > Database: > http://graphics.latimes.com/soft-story-apartments-needing-retrofit/ > Story: > http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-quake-risk-20160415-story.html > New github repo to track this idea: > https://github.com/socal-osm/earthquake-risk > > Jon > > On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Robert Banick <rban...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Jonathon, > > This looks great, it’s fantastic to see the LA Times leading on this work. > Adding buildings to LA is super cool. Having grown up in suburbanized > Atlanta I know it’s a lot harder to wander about and add buildings than in, > say, New York or Berlin. > > Quick question: do you all have any structural information about the > buildings related to earthquake safety? If so I’d be interested in what > tagging schema you’re using for them. I work with OSM for disaster > management in my day job so I’m always keeping an eye out for good ideas > from others. > > Keep it up and don’t let the usual import haters get you down. > > - Robert > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM Rihards <ric...@nakts.net> wrote: > >> On 2016.06.30. 17:58, Michael Reichert wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Am Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:20:46 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Schleuss: >> >> The Los Angeles Times will host another import party to push the "Great >> >> L.A. County Import" forward. We've imported more than half a million >> >> buildings with the great help of locals and the folks from Mapbox. >> > >> > Did each participant use a separate account for this import? >> > >> >> My focus is to use this import strengthen the Southern California OSM >> >> community. But, the project is open to all. If you're in the area, >> >> please join us. >> > >> > Do you really believe that this helps the local community? A healthy map >> > has a strong community and a strong community consists out of people who >> > look after their neighbourhood on the map (i.e. keep data up to date). >> >> a good import motivates local mappers. when they see that the map is >> kinda there but a pub, shop or housenumber is missing, it easier for >> them to start. >> if they see blank area, they go "why bother". >> building outlines are very hard to collect for amateur mappers, and it >> is a large amount of work even with good sources. >> >> i'd like to say thank you to everybody who has done a proper, careful >> building import (no overlaps with existing buildings, no nodes on >> straight sections, orthogonalised etc :) ) - i know it was a lot of work. >> ... >> -- >> Rihards >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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