On the topic of UK flooding, I've created a wiki page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Floods_2014
As you can see, I agree that this should not be treated as anything like a normal HOT crisis response mapping exercise for the reasons given there. But there's lots we can do to help OpenStreetMap get *used*. In fact I've been approached by a couple of people in relation to a "FloodHack" event happening in London today, which is shaping up to be a pretty bick hacker gathering. So also on that wiki page is some information for "hackers" looking to use OpenStreetMap (who are new to it). I've also tried to add a couple of more specific hack ideas, related to UK floods. I would appreciate it if anyone can think of other more specific hack ideas related to floods, please edit the page (preferably in time for the hackers who will be looking at this in a few hours time) This may be an opportunity to harness some hacking enthusiasm for HOT tools/docs etc in general, although there's not point listing such ideas on that wiki page really. We need to think of clever ways of relating it to UK floods. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: Fran Boon <[email protected]> To: Pieren <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 13:27 Subject: Re: [HOT] UK Flooding On 12 February 2014 13:16, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although for those people who are updating their routable GPS devices >> from the database, they'd want to have this available to them too, so >> ideally would be easily merged into that too. > The other risk if you put this in OSM db, is to have an unpassable > road till the next GPS device update which might be in a month or in a > year (or never) ... Right, so should only be in those which are continually-updating or those where the user is in control of adding the flood layer themselves... F _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
