[Talk-GB] Residential flat above an unconnected business

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri May 21 07:16:01 UTC 2021


On 20/5/21 5:52 am, Tom Crocker wrote:
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> On Sun, 16 May 2021, 12:42 Jeremy Harris, <jgh at wizmail.org 
> <mailto:jgh at wizmail.org>> wrote:
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>     On 16/05/2021 11:35, David Woolley wrote:
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>     You didn't speak to the original point of how to map the flat over
>     the shop.  What's the best way to express
>     - a slice of a terrace
>     - where the ground floor is a butchers, and has a lean-to out the back
>        and its own carpaking space
>     - the first floor is a dentist
>     - the second floor is residential flat
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> Can I have a stab at "the second floor is a residential flat". I've no 
> experience of indoor mapping 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Indoor_Tagging but this 
> seems like a good use for it. So I think the second floor would be 
> mapped as an area with indoor=level, level=2. Then how to express that 
> it's residential? According to Nathan Case's new page multi-tagging of 
> the building:use tag is quite popular, so e.g. 
> building:use=residential;commercial on the building. But perhaps we 
> should have level:use=residential instead on the level (or as well?) 
> It's not documented or popular 
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/level%3Ause but it seems like 
> the only way to express it, which I guess would be useful for the kind 
> of analysis Rupert was talking about on that other thread.
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> Anyway, just an idea. Happy mapping!

Indoor mapping maps things like rooms, corridors, stairs.. not the whole 
floor unless that is a single space.

So I don't think indoor mapping is suitable for mapping the use of each 
floor.


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