It makes sense to me that the damage assessment would mostly be from the ground. From an aerial or satellite photo, you can tell if a building is collapsed, but not if the walls are damaged enough to make collapse likely in the near future.
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Kilian <o...@petschge.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:19:35 To: Jean-Marc Liotier<j...@liotier.org> Cc: <talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Tagging for Haiti: Humanitarian Data Models in support of OSM tagging for Haiti EQ Hi, > If the idea of removing one of the two does not generate enthusiasm, > would applying both tags everyhere be a better idea ? I don't believe > so, but I would love to read other opinions... Not in general. In this case it might be. > Actually, I'm surprised that no one else commented on this data quality > issue. Not a big issue mind you, but I'm wondering anyway... Looks like most other groups use our road data and do the damage assessment on buildings themselves. So it's probably not really important. Patrick "Petschge" Kilian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
