Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-24 Thread John Willis
> On Sep 24, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Joseph Eisenberg > wrote: > > Piles of sand could also be used for flood control (eg to fill sandbags) Are there permanent mappable locations for such materials - materials purposefully set aside for a single purpose? I always think of sandbags as a

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-23 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
CMF BJ G On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:55 AM Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > Good idea. It would be nice if these stockpiles of materials could all be > tagged in a similar way. Piles of sand could also be used for flood control > (eg to fill sandbags), while minds gravel and rocks could be used to repair

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-23 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
Good idea. It would be nice if these stockpiles of materials could all be tagged in a similar way. Piles of sand could also be used for flood control (eg to fill sandbags), while minds gravel and rocks could be used to repair roads, dikes, and so on. BTW, I believe the British English term is

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-23 Thread John Willis
> On Sep 23, 2018, at 6:33 AM, Anton Klim wrote: > > not levee_repair? Hmm - no one at that location repairs levees. It is a station just to store blocks. I just want it to be unambiguous. Like the difference between car repair and car parking Even then, levee_repair might be good

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-22 Thread Anton Klim
Why not levee_repair? Good to know they have a name and a list 2018-09-22 9:12 GMT+01:00 John Willis : > > > On Sep 21, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Anton Klim wrote: > > Do these have anything to identify them, like a ref? > > > I found a sign cycling today. > > 奥戸防災ステーション > > Okudo (village) "Disaster

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-22 Thread John Willis
> On Sep 21, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Anton Klim wrote: > > Do these have anything to identify them, like a ref? I found a sign cycling today. 奥戸防災ステーション Okudo (village) "Disaster prevention station" The "river" is implied - "river disaster prevention station" is a huge mouthful. The

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-21 Thread John Willis
> On Sep 21, 2018, at 4:09 PM, Anton Klim wrote: > > Do these have anything to identify them, like a ref I cannot find an official name or ref - but I can see their purpose. The next time I am on a cycling survey, I will take a picture of any small plaques they usually put somewhere on a

Re: [Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-21 Thread Anton Klim
Do these have anything to identify them, like a ref? 3 words for a key seems like a mouthful to me, maybe emergency=levee_repair/materials. Ant 21.09.2018, в 0:59, John Willis написал(а): > I ran into an interesting thing when mapping my local rivers. > > All of the rivers in my area have

[Tagging] Emergency=levee_breach_materials

2018-09-20 Thread John Willis
I ran into an interesting thing when mapping my local rivers. All of the rivers in my area have levees running 100% of their length from the mountains to the coast, there are probably over 1000 linear KM of earthen levees in the Tokyo region alone - 20mx10m levees (or bigger) along the outer