On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:44 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone come up with a suitable method of tagging, especially > roads, that are prone to flooding?
they way Massachusetts was settled, the flood prone areas tend to be tagged Village ... flood waters just cresting here. > Apart from flooding in various parts of Europe, parts of Australia has > recently been flooded as well, And North Dakota and New England, US thaw/flood season just getting into full swing >in the case of Australia there is > aerial imagery showing roads that were submerged: > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-28.0436,148.567316&z=18&t=h&nmd=20100308 just for explicit, the Personal license there grants CC-SA use, is that compatible with old & proposed new OSM terms? Here in the US there is an official federal definition of Flood Prone line, within which flood insurance disclosure is required of Realtors(tm). Reading a single flood line from a photo - which may not be at crest, may be an annual, a 20year, or a 50year event, will be very low fidelity in comparison. -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
