Hi Stephane,
In your wiki page, you suggest the incorporation of natural hazard data either
in OSM or in a fork project of OSM. Your definitions are interesting and lets
hope that some discussions will eventually emerge from all of that.
Pierre
>________________________________
> De : Stéphane Henriod <[email protected]>
>À : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>
>Cc : HOT Openstreetmap <[email protected]>
>Envoyé le : Dimanche 24 juin 2012 15h10
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Re : New Bing Imagery in Mali and delimitation of riverbanks
>
>
>Hi
>
>I know I am bit insisting (and maybe I'm the only one interested in the
>topic?) but what I don't like with the flood_prone = yes is that it is not
>easily extensible to other types of hazards (landslides, rockfalls,
>avalanches, cyclones...), that are of the highest relevance for many parts of
>the world. Am I the only one here who thinks that we should rather try to
>promote a model that allows for inclusion of other natural hazards?
>
>This wiki page is my first effort towards this but I am 100% ready to re-think
>the whole if someone has a better idea!
>
>And to come back to the initial question, I guess that waterway=riverbank must
>be used in almost everycase, to delineate the "normal" extent of the rivers.
>Even in areas with huge fluctuations of the water levels, people are clever
>enough to build infrastructure where there is *in general* no water.
>flood_prone=yes (or any similar tag) should be reserved for extents bigger
>than waterway=riverbank (and where, usually, you will find fields, houses...
>that might be affected by the high waters).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Stéphane
>
>
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