On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Eric Christensen <e...@christensenplace.us> wrote:
> The current tagging system is likely not being rendered by any > software out there and seems to be a one-off. To me this *should* be > a type of route which would show direction and, perhaps, the type of > emergency when this route would be active. > I agree. Besides hurricane routes, there are tsunami routes leading away from coastal areas to higher ground. Adding direction in these type of cases makes sense. There are snow routes, without direction, that get priority during winter storms. This type of tagging shouldn't be specific to the USA and should be > generic enough to be globally used. > > On the rendering side of things, I could see a switch being toggled > that would gray out everything but emergency routes, emergency > resources (shelters, food, water, etc), and other resources that could > be turned on individually. One could even store evacuation points and > meeting locations on these maps making it much easier for someone to > navigate during an emergency. > > Rendering on the standard OSM layer would probably be too much information. It would definitely be useful for specific emergency maps and hopefully even routing apps like Scout, Maps.me and OSMand. You might want to approach the maintainers of the humanitarian layer to see if they would be interested. Currently there are less then 5,000 implementation globally. > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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