Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 2/8/2012 3:14 PM, Bryce2 Nesbitt wrote: > Colons in keys are likely to make many casual mappers uneasy about > editing said tag, let alone two of them in one key. Casual mappers seem an unlikely target for this particular type of highly technical mapping. Adding the number of fl

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Bryce2 Nesbitt
> > Colons in keys are likely to make many casual mappers uneasy about > > editing said tag, let alone two of them in one key. > Casual mappers seem an unlikely target for this particular type of highly technical mapping. That said: The 3D mapping by tags is interesting. But anothe

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/2/8 Kytömaa Lauri : > IMO this is a "make mapping easy" choise (vs. "code requires sticking > to definitions, even if it is against day to day speak"): you can get a > random mapper to count the windows and have them enter that. > If one > asks people if a building is a, say, six-storey buildi

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Kytömaa Lauri
> 4. building:levels=*Number of stories of the building above ground. >-> why only above ground? I find this missleading as well. The logical >meaning of a tag "building:levels" would be "the total amount of >building levels". If it is for the levels above ground, why not >building:levels:abov

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 08/feb/2012 um 17:03 schrieb John Sturdy : > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > >> 5. building:min_level=* Number of stories between ground and actual >> first existing floor >> -> I'd completely discourage usage of this key, and suggest to >> estimate the ele

Re: [Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread John Sturdy
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I want to raise attention to this page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Building_attributes > > which most of you certainly are aware of. This page is pretending to > be a proposal page, but actually has become mo

[Tagging] building attributes

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
I want to raise attention to this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Building_attributes which most of you certainly are aware of. This page is pretending to be a proposal page, but actually has become mostly a documentation page for several application programmers to docum