<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I believe that level=* is not intended for direction finding but for 3D rendering. So, yes, it is an “internal value” which needs to be uniform through out the world. And for building rendering numerical values make much more sense than text. Pretty much like lanes=* or width=* need to be uniformly defined numeric values for the whole world.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If a text value is needed, it is a lot easier to regionally map a uniform numeric value into a text string than taking any number of regional text strings and mapping them into a number for rendering building height.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Tod</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 24, 2015, at 8:05 PM, pmailkeey . <<a href="mailto:pmailkeey@googlemail.com" class="">pmailkeey@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 May 2015 at 03:53, Warin <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="">A person seeking something on level "henry" will not recognise OSM
level numbers ... they want the name.. <br class=""></div></span>
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If OSM does not use names, but they are used within the wanted
building .. then there will need to be a declared relationship
between the two. <br class="">
So there needs to be a relation between the names used locally to
the OSM level=number ?<br class="">
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If OSM uses names then OSM will need a relationship between the
names and which one is 'ground' and there respective order. <br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's highly likely that the street level floor would be named 'Ground' - so if software needs to know this, that would be a good starting point. It could also be worked out by which highway meets the street. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why would floor order be specifically required within OSM other than where they are related (e.g. stairs)? Why numerify a labelling system ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Floor 'numbers' have been obviously used for the convenience of the numerical symbols (like street address numbers - yet not all properties have a number some are named). Some floor labelling schemes are by colour code - and I've even come across animals used to identify a particular floor! (We parked on elephant level).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">
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So? A new tag to relate one to the other?<br class="">
level:name=1:henry ? <br class="">
the wiki <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:level#String_values" target="_blank" class="">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:level#String_values</a>
has a mention of string values .. but NO real way of adding them in
a usefull way.. <br class="">
nor is there any indication of how to use these tag on a map... as
in rendering. <br class="">
For the given example above the indoor map should display the level
name .. not the number .. <br class="">
And this could be used where the level numbering is not that used by
OSM .. but using the level:name=0:1 could correctly display the
correct local number wile retaining the OSM level system. <br class="">
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Indoor .. a GPS will not be of much use .. so the 'indoor map' will
need to be a good representation of what goes on. <br class="">
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