[Tagging] Wiki: Key:level: proposed rewrite

pmailkeey . pmailkeey at googlemail.com
Mon May 25 03:05:12 UTC 2015


On 25 May 2015 at 03:53, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A person seeking something on level "henry" will not recognise OSM level
> numbers ... they want the name..
>
> 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.
> So there needs to be a relation between the names used locally to the OSM
> level=number ?
>
> If OSM uses names then OSM will need a relationship between the names and
> which one is 'ground' and there respective order.
>

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.

Why would floor order be specifically required within OSM other than where
they are related (e.g. stairs)? Why numerify a labelling system ?

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).


> So? A new tag to relate one to the other?
> level:name=1:henry      ?
> the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:level#String_values has a
> mention of string values .. but NO real way of adding them in a usefull
> way..
> nor is there any indication of how to use these tag on a map... as in
> rendering.
> For the given example above the indoor map should display the level name
> .. not the number ..
> 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.
>
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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.
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