On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, David Murn wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 06:56 +1000, John Smith wrote: > > 2010/1/14 Jim Croft <[email protected]>: > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Re > > >sponse http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ > > > > I'm not trying to detract from how badly off people are in Haiti... > > but nothing like this occurred when Australia had those really bad > > fires recently. > > Last time I checked, a bushfire doesnt change the geographical location > of *everything*, like a 7.0 earthquake does. Im sure there were OSM > updates in Australia after the fires of damaged infrastructure, but we > didnt have roads and buildings changing their geographical coordinates > with the ground shifting. > > David > Most of the mapping effort appears to be marking destroyed buildings. The original mapping isn't apparently good enough to be sure if things have shifted a couple of metres.
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