On 15 January 2011 10:45, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps somebody familiar with the affected areas could create a list > of specific ways that remote mappers can help? Tasks that include > specific geographic starting points and limited scope are easier to > act on.
Almost all eastern states of Australia are effected to some extent, Brisbane[1] and surrounding areas is just making most of the headlines because of the amount of people effected and the potential cost of the disaster. That said Grantham, Qld[2] seems to have been hardest hit with a flash flood demolishing houses and killing the people inside them. Toowoomba[3] was hit pretty hard as well, I think several people died during the same flash flood event. Last I heard the death toll was at 16 for Qld, I'm not aware if there has been any deaths in other states. Rockhampton[4] and Bundaberg[5] wer also flooded extensively, and there were reports of lots of snakes and crocodiles in the flood water. The in the state of Western Australia you have bush fires taking out houses, again because of all the focus on Brisbane these other areas aren't getting the same sort of coverage. Australia Post spent a lot of time and effort figuring out routes around the flood waters, this would have been a great opportunity for OSM and people making routing software to shine. > "map the extent of the ridge starting [lat, lon] and running northeast for n > km" > > "map the roads, now flooded, between that ridge and the river" Thankfully the water is now receding and so far the rain is holding off, but places like St George in south western Qld have just had their 2nd major flood event in 10 months, so it's possible with the ground so wet that it wouldn't take much rain to kick off another major flood event in the near future, and this might be likely with a strong la nina event persisting much longer than most had previously predicted. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.458&lon=153.027&zoom=10&layers=M [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.578&lon=152.20163&zoom=15&layers=M [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.5666&lon=151.9347&zoom=13&layers=M [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-23.4001&lon=150.5106&zoom=12&layers=M [5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-24.8757&lon=152.3254&zoom=12&layers=M * I'm not sure where the bush fires are exactly, can anyone else comment on this? These are only the more populated areas that have been effected, there is lots of farms isolated due to flood water that have to get helicopters to bring in food and other supplies that is of course assuming their farm house is still above water. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
