Questions & Answers - Earthquakes and OpenStreetMap

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Speaker: Danijel Schorlemmer Chair: Lorenzo Stucchi (@LorenzoStucchi)

Questions

  1. [DONE] For knowing the risk of the building is to provide the exact location, the level etc of building, what about the road?
    1. Could you be more specific please. Do you mean the risk of a road or the just the position of building on the road?
      1. I meant the risk of road
  2. [DONE] The example of San Francisco is great but that was thanks to a data import project from Gov open data, what will happen in countries when the Governmemnts don’t want to share this data to OSM because there might be corruption on the construction licenses they gave?
  3. [DONE] Does this research need DEM external data?
  4. [DONE] The lack of geological data on OSM and often among the opendata is a limit for the model? Would this type of data improve the model?

Comments

  1. In some “informal” cities, buildings didn’t apply for permits and are in fact illegal, so any mapping of them is rather “sensitive.”
  2. Realtors would not be happy to see your maps.
    1. Certain classification info (estimations) we are internally calculating on a building level, we don’t give them out publicly, but rather just work tightly with local authorities. (Felix, GFZ)