Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi Bryce: Have you ever done any single task of any Tasking Manager project? From your comments, it seems you are completely wrong on what the Tasking Manager is about. Cheers, Rafael. El 24 de mayo de 2015 02:55:17 CDT, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com escribió: On Sun, May 24, 2015 at

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bryce: Have you ever done any single task of any Tasking Manager project? From your comments, it seems you are completely wrong on what the Tasking Manager is about. Cheers, Rafael. Why, yes I have used the

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread John Eldredge
There is an organization already tracking crowd-sourced reports of needed repairs, SeeClickFix. I have used this to report issues such as blocked street drains. The local Public Works department monitors these reports and marks them closed once the needed repairs have been done. On May 24,

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and who's going to go

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: The intention of the damage:event=* or maybe disaster:event=* tag doesn't have much to do with assigning causation, and has more to do with tag maintenance. We want to be able to run projects that get objects that were

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Warin
On 24/05/2015 5:09 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com mailto:ricoz@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Warin
On 24/05/2015 5:10 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: The intention of the damage:event=* or maybe disaster:event=* tag doesn't have much to do with assigning causation, and has more to do

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-24 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote: Because it become available to others .. like the government/local authorities who may be in charge of repairs? Crowd source databases are not appropriate sources for government/local action at that level. Were there

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/22/2015 06:12 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: OSM is about mapping what is important to people AND on the ground. Important alone doesn't suffice. and believe me, if the only bridge for 50km is out that is important to me and others. Yes, of course. If there is no bridge left at all

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 22.05.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Yes, of course. If there is no bridge left at all then we'd simply delete - or refrain from mapping - the bridge (rather than create an object saying there was a bridge but it's gone now). Incidentally this means that

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Warin
On 22/05/2015 8:54 PM, Richard Z. wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and who's going to go back three years after the HOT

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Z.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and who's going to go back three years after the HOT event and clean up? same is even worse with

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Warin
On 22/05/2015 5:32 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 22.05.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Yes, of course. If there is no bridge left at all then we'd simply delete - or refrain from mapping - the bridge (rather than create an object saying there was a bridge but

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Z.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Andreas Goss wrote: As you linked to this on the HOT list a few things noticed... What about the typhoon:, earthquake: or tsunami: tags? Replaced with damage:event? What about e.g. damage:building? This could still be used even if you have

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Blake Girardot
These replies are all very helpful, thank you very much. On 5/22/2015 9:04 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Whether the bridge was broken by a hurricane or an earthquake or in a war, will often not be easy to discern on the ground. Therefore I view a tag that details the event which broke the bridge,

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-05-22 12:14 GMT+02:00 Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com: Much quicker and cheaper to repair/replace sections that are damaged than place a new road + bridges elsewhere. yes, also because typically there has been a reason why a certain spot has been chosen for the bridge (topography, river

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Blake Girardot
I don't know Andreas, do we need to say what kind of event it is? I would lean toward damage:type=hurricane|earthquake|etc or event:type=hurricane|earthquake|etc But this actually brings up an issue that we ran into in Nepal. How do identify the event (and maybe event type) independent of

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
I feel this is a good example of a database that should use OSM as a base layer. A rendering engine can match a given primary key for, say, a building outline to the given damage assessment tag. --- Damage assessment data is very transitory, compared to the lifetime of objects in OSM.

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Blake Girardot
Damage info has been tagged in OSM for a long time. OSM already tags a lot of temporary and transient stuff. We are aware of the nature of the tags and want to be able to review, maintain the remove the tags, it is one of the main goals of any tagging system we settle on like that. On

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Damage info has been tagged in OSM for a long time. OSM already tags a lot of temporary and transient stuff. We are aware of the nature of the tags and want to be able to review, maintain the remove the tags, it is

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Bryce: Everything is temporary: the highway surfaces, oneway, classification... Railways go disused and new ones are constructed every day. Thousands of shops close everyday, to reopen with a new name and type (and contact:*...) Farmlands go greenfields, then construction, then

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Bryce: Yes. Everything is temporary. So whatever we do in OSM for temporary objects has to be applied to ALL objects. We don't store the number of chickens found in each compound. We do store railways, the

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Blake Girardot
On 5/22/2015 1:43 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Bryce: Yes. Everything is temporary. So whatever we do in OSM for temporary objects has to be applied to ALL objects. We don't

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and who's going to go back three years after the HOT event and clean up? - Keep in mind this tagging mailing list is a tiny and non-representative

Re: [Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-05-21 Thread Andreas Goss
As you linked to this on the HOT list a few things noticed... What about the typhoon:, earthquake: or tsunami: tags? Replaced with damage:event? What about e.g. damage:building? This could still be used even if you have building= and damage= What about the status= and impassable= keys and

[Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

2015-04-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Greetings everyone, I am looking to help further develop a set of tags to reflect disaster event damage to mapped objects in OSM. OSM has already used damage tags in the past several times for example after Typhoon Haiyan: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Damaged_buildings_crisis_mapping And