<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 9:50 PM Tobias Zwick <<a href="mailto:osm@westnordost.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">osm@westnordost.de</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Region                        | likely zero-based | likely one-based<br>
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Washington, Philadelphia, NY  |         3         |        2<br>
Silicon valley, Los Angeles   |         4         |        4<br>
Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa      |         6         |        0<br>
Moscow                        |        23         |       51<br>
Tokyo                         |        14         |       16<br>
Seoul                         |         0         |        2<br>
Bangkok                       |         8         |        5<br>
------------------------------|-------------------|-----------------<br>
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For comparison:<br>
whole Phillipines             |        23         |        4<br>
whole Netherlands             |        11         |        2<br>
Berlin                        |        19         |        2<br>
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*likely zero-based: there was at least one shop tagged with level=0<br>
*likely one-based: there was no shop tagged with level=0 but shops at at<br>
                   least two different other levels<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A note: the Philippines is actually a one-based system (first floor = ground floor) because our economy follows the U.S. as a result of being a territory of the U.S. before and during WWII. The fact that you get more zero-based level=* tagging in OSM for the Philippines is because of mappers like me who actually do read the wiki and inform other new mappers of OSM's system.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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