[Tagging] The actual use of the level tag (redux)

Minh Nguyen minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
Tue Mar 15 09:50:19 UTC 2022


Vào lúc 01:21 2022-03-15, Martin Koppenhoefer đã viết:
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>> On 15 Mar 2022, at 08:09, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
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>> I think it's partly thanks to iD's Level field: the placeholder text and dropdown menu list the most common values in taginfo, starting with 0, 1, and -1. Many people intuitively understand that the presence of 0 means the system is zero-based. Even though the basement is sometimes called "floor 0", they wouldn't interpret level=0 as the basement if -1 is also present.
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> maybe iD could display “speaking presets” for the level tag in the dropdown, like “ground_floor”, “first floor”, “first underground floor” etc., rather than using the raw values.
> Only in the “all tags” section the numbers would be shown.

Thanks, I think that would be a more user-friendly approach. Let's 
continue that line of thinking in the issue tracker: 
<https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/420>.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us






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