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I was looking for the site of the bridge on OpenStreetMap, but couldn't find it. It took me a while to realize that someone already took it off the map within an hour of it collapsing.

Impressive (and correct), if a little disconcerting:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.42585/8.88840

All the access roads have been disabled too.

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I removed it as soon as I got the news. First thing is to have the routing software updated and handle the emergency. I live in Genoa ad I work in a logistic company, and I'm an OSM contributor since 2011 :-)

Well played. Despite the tragedy, that must be your finest OSM hour.

I prefer when I tweeted CopernicusEMS during the 2016 earthquake... http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/sites/default/files/f...

bridge=collapsed

damage:event="2018-08-14 Genova Collapsed Bridge"

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/616904168#map=18/44.42599/...

The power the OSM tagging system.is capable of astounds me over and over. Looking for benches with backrests in your area? There's a way to encode the locations of those in OSM!

Are you allowed to bring your bike onboard this ferry? Does it have a toilet? All answerable with OSM!

Of course, the downside is a diverse set of opinions on how to tag stuff, but I get the impression OSM editors are aware of the vast public benefits of having an agreed-upon way to tag things.

What I really, really, like is location of all the public toilets. This is precious information while exploring big cities.

You're welcome :-)

I wonder if there's also @Anonymaps on HN...

Googles map with sattelite and traffic updates https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@44.425374,8.8839348,2984m/dat...

It has a quite a good 3d render of the bridge and street level view if you zoom in

If you zoom out, it is still there. I guess it might be a cache https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/44.4262/8.8879

Lower zoom-levels are cached for a longer period than higher ones for performance reasons.

OpenStreetMap per se is, in the pedantic/correct sense, not the bitmap tiles, but the database used to generate them.

Wikipedia was very quick, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...

The italian entry for the bridge was semiprotected as soon as the news broke, but now I see there's a enwiki standalone entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi

xkcd was premonitory https://xkcd.com/2029/

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