[Tagging] Wiki: Key:level: proposed rewrite

[pmailkeey .]

On 25 May 2015 at 15:44, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  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
>
>

Also knowing the street elevation would give the clue as to which floor was
'ground level' - as would a highway linking internal routes to external.
Ele would at least tie in with 3D mapping whereas positional info is lost
with 'level='

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