[Tagging] Wiki: Key:level: proposed rewrite

[Colin Smale]

The ele tag specifically refers to the height above "sea level". What we
would want here is a height above "ambient ground level". Overloading
"ele" in this way would lead to untold confusion and be a recipe for
disaster. 

//colin 

On 2015-05-25 15:29, pmailkeey . wrote: 

> On 25 May 2015 at 14:08, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25/05/2015, pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The floor level *order* will be clear from the ele(vation) tag, won't it.
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> Since when has the ele=* tag been used for floors in a building?
> 
> What other tag do you propose to indicate vertical position then ? Why would we need another tag when ele fits this purpose? 
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