[Tagging] Wiki: Key:level: proposed rewrite

[Richard Welty]

On 5/25/15 1:20 PM, John Eldredge wrote:
> The level key is intended for OSM internal use, to tell routing and
> rendering software what connects to what. For indoor mapping, it would
> make sense to also have a way to name floors, which needs to allow for
> both numeric and non-numeric floor names. I have been in buildings
> that have more than one named floor. For example, one parking garage
> that I sometimes use has levels named Basement, Ground (ground level
> on one side of the building), 1 (ground level on the opposite side of
> the building), 2, 3, 4, and 5.
quick example from downtown albany - the old Omni office building
has B (basement), L (lobby), 1 through 12, P1 & P2 (penthouse 1 & 2)

the level key is very much internal and if indoor mapping ever is going
to go anywhere, some provision for the names is important.

richard

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