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

[Marc Gemis]

Would a tool like http://github.pavie.info/openlevelup/ be of any help to
visualize the shops ?

regards

m

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:11 PM, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> One strategy is to try & map shops at one level as areas; and map shops in
> remaining areas as nodes; the nodes can be slightly offset so that all are
> visible. It's a bit of a kludge, but providing the tagging is sensible
> about using layer & building:level etc, it's not tagging for the renderer,
> merely choosing a particular convention for mapping.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 24 September 2015 at 16:52, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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