I think 36 feet could be a reasonable height. It appears to be a retail or
commercial building, which in the US can easily have a clear height
(internal ceiling height) of 16-24' for each floor (if not more, I've seen
some at 28'). Like James mentioned, this could be a multi-story building.

Also keep in mind that the height field is supposed to reflect the maximum
height, not an average. So any slope (like their appears to be on that
building) is going to increase the height value.

Thanks,

Andrew

On Sep 10, 2017 5:47 PM, "Leon Karcher" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, but this
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/523414373#map=19/27.76977/-82.70015> 
> building
> is definitely not 12 meters tall if you compare it to Mapillary
> <https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=27.770955233862182&lng=-82.69659542457475&z=12.351925459224056&mapStyle=mapbox_streets&pKey=UHRsNCiHGjlaATnP9hg9HQ&focus=photo&x=0.4720420384862768&y=0.5438714582597994&zoom=0.30927835051546393>,
> so the height can't be in meters.
>
> 2017-09-11 0:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Matheny <[email protected]>:
>
>> Leon-
>>
>> These footprints were donated by Microsoft, and the height attributes are
>> already in meters. See the Documentation section of the wiki page here:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2017 5:00 PM, "Leon Karcher" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just realized a problem with the data of this import: Heights are
>>> measured in feet and inches but are in standard meters format (eg. 10.41
>>> instead of 10'41''). Has anybody an idea how we could translate them? And
>>> what shall we do with the already imported buildings?
>>>
>>> - Leon
>>>
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