[Tagging] Wiki: Key:level: proposed rewrite

[Warin]

On 25/05/2015 1:18 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
>> 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.
> That's funny.  In your previous example no floor is named 'Ground'.
>

And for some buildings .. the true 'ground level' is a quite a slope .. spanning some 4 'levels' of one building I know.

So the declaration of one level as 'ground' is fairly arbitrary.

On 25/05/2015 1:05 PM, pmailkeey . wrote:


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

For navigation .. in the vertical plane?
E.G. "Go up 2 floors to level henry."

Or for ordering or the vertical display (to ensure the levels are correctly ordered from top to bottom (or the other way if your so inclined {pun}).