Hi all,
The situation there will likely evolve. More destructions, more informal
settlements from refugees, and (hopefully) ultimately rebuilding when
things settle.
1.
There might be an interest in keeping track of all these changes, and
this can be done by looking at feature history or diffs on the OSM
database between 2 dates.
Are there easy means of doing so? (overpass "newer" queries may be
limited from that respect).
2.
Aside from this, we can't be sure a change on-site is immediately
followed by a change in the database (it can take time before we notice
a house has been destroyed). Therefore a history tag could be added any
time we have this information.
3.
Third, with tags for damaged or destroyed buildings, I feel there should
be a deeper thinking. there is a habit putting things this way, e.g.
building="damaged".
I am not convinced this is the best possible practice.
3.1.
Whether the building used to be building=hospital or
building=warehouse... is an information that remains important even when
it is destroyed or damaged. But the aforementioned practice wipes this
information out.
3.2.
many people quickly search for buildings (building=*) with the idea they
host people. But if no further attention is paid to those
damaged/destroyed building (some may afford people in, some not), they
might draw false conclusions (seek to bring relief to deserted
areas...). We should at least communicate on the use of building=destroyed.
However, to address points 3.1 and 3.2 I would rather suggest we avoid
construction/destruction state as values of tag building. This should
rather come with a separate tag like e.g. "condition" (or
state_of_repair, etc.). We could then make a difference between a
[building=hospital; condition=destroyed] and a [building=warehouse;
condition=destroyed].
your opinion?
Best regards,
Rod
On 17/01/15 18:46, S Volk wrote:
Thank you Michael, Blake, and Russell. I understand, wait for the
availability of images of DG in OSM for identification of devastated
buildings. Good to know that there was already this tag
"building=damaged/collapsed" (and sad), it renders very informatively
and solve it in just one tagging.
Cheers, Sérgio.
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