[OSM-talk-ie] building:levels=*

[Colm Moore]

Hi,

There's a discussion at https://twitter.com/CiaranStaunton/status/1320505496105820163 on building:levels=* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels which is used for marking the number of above-ground levels of a building.

There are about 3,000 entries on Ireland where the number isn't a whole number. Sometimes this may represent the likes of dormer buildings, which are sometimes described colloquially as and one-and-a-half-storey or two-and-a-half-storey houses. in other cases, it may have been used instead of height=*.

I'm wondering if anyone has any insights as to how people were interpreting the tag.

Colm

PS And yes, I mapped a bunch of zero-storey buildings. :)

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