<div dir="auto">Not all the problem buildings are HOT related I think it would be of more general use but given HOT's fascination with buildings currently many of the new mappers are theirs.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We also seem to have an increase in the number of duplicate buildings lately but that is another issue and not too difficult to correct other than the sheer numbers of them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 19:59 Mateusz Konieczny via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>"but may not explain in the project
instructions how a "non-standard" building should be mapped"<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Especially in areas where such buildings are typical it is failure on HOT side and<br></div><div dir="auto">should be remediated on their side. If someone is looking for newbies and instructing<br></div><div dir="auto">them to edits it is their responsibility to provide necessary instructions to avoid ending<br></div><div dir="auto">with poor edits. I am quite surprised that this problem was not spotted so far by them,<br></div><div dir="auto">given HOT focus on building geometries.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Though making some easy to use documentation would be useful in general.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 16, 2021, 00:21 by <a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #93a3b8;padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>What I'm interested in is something a new
mapper (probably HOT) can refer to when they are mapping. So it needs
to be fairly comprehensive to stop the young ladies and gentlemen from
being a little too creative in their tagging.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> HOT asks them to map buildings but may not explain in the project
instructions how a "non-standard" building should be mapped and I'm
seeing some very creative efforts as I search for duplicate buildings.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Cheerio John<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <span>Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 12/15/2021 6:03 PM:</span><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Am Mi., 15. Dez. 2021 um 23:45 Uhr schrieb
John Whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I'm noticing new mappers attempting to map more complex buildings. Do
we have something to cover an internal courtyard, a multi level building
ie
religious has a spire etc.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>there is
man_made=courtyard <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aman_made%3Dcourtyard" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aman_made%3Dcourtyard</a><br></div><div>for
multilevel buildings, it depends on the level of detail and aspects you
are interested in.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Things on different levels
(POIs) can get a level=* tag (not to be confused with layer) <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:level" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:level</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>if
you want to map the amount of levels, it is building:levels=n (plus
underground levels and roof levels, which have their own tags). <br></div><div><br></div><div>It
is even long standing, documented practice to map non existing levels,
voids, empty space, with the tag "building:min_level" (you get the value
by counting levels that do not exist), but these are borderline ;-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Martin<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>-- <br></div><div> <br></div><div>Sent from <a href="https://www.postbox-inc.com" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,157,247)">Postbox</span></a><br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div>
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