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

[SK53]

Yes, I had meant to mention it. There was a nice presentation at SotM-Fr.

Jerry

On 24 September 2015 at 19:46, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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