> On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> The bigger problem could be verifiability. OSM is about crowd sourced geodata 
> while this property seems to require expert capabilities and additional 
> information you cannot get non-destructively on the ground?
> 

For what it is worth, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training I 
took a while back included a session on earthquake damage including how to 
identify soft storey construction. CERT is a local citizen response system in 
the United States and seems to be implemented, sometimes with different names, 
in most cities in the country. Since earthquake response is an important thing 
in California there were a number of sessions dedicated to response including 
quick survey for levels of damage to buildings, setting up evacuation areas, 
establishing communications with the official fire/rescue/law enforcement 
agencies, etc.

All this is to say that in an earthquake prone area there are likely to be a 
fair number of people unassociated with official emergency response, building 
trades, engineering, etc., who have had at least an introduction to identifying 
buildings that are suspect for structural issues in an earthquake.

Cheers!



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