[Talk-GB] Birmingham New Street station re-opens

[Derick Rethans]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Richard Mann wrote:

> Had a look round. The main upper-level (ie Grand Central) footways are
> mercifully fairly simple, but of course the proliferation of shops on
> multiple levels is going to be very hard to display.
> 
> My suggestion would be to focus conventional tagging on the main street /
> concourse level, with a minimalist approach to the other layers/levels. I'm
> thinking maybe do the layer 1 footways as highway=footway+bridge=yes, and
> the layer 1 shops as level1:shop=xxx+level1:name=yyy.

I've previously just done for shops, layer=1;shop=whatever;name=foo and 
draw (where possible) the different shop outlines: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.54312/-0.00574 And for the 
footways and pedestrian areas, just footway=yes;layer=1

It doesn't render well, but the data is there. 

cheers,
Derick