[Tagging] Adding floor location information

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 15:38:16 UTC 2015


2015-09-29 13:10 GMT+02:00 Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:

> > addr:floor is about the address, "level" is used more often.
>
> When addr:floor=* was first proposed a few years ago, it had almost
> the exact same semantics as level=*.
>
> Now, I'm using addr:floor=* to indicate the human-readable floor
> information while level=* is used for the machine-readable number. For
> example: addr:floor=Mezzanine Level and level=0.5



+1, I'd see addr:floor as always in local units (the way it is called in
the building and would be written on a letter), while level is the osm
version, counting "levels" from ground floor=0 upwards and downwards.

Cheers,
Martin
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