[OSM-talk] A project for winter - Building heights

OJ W ojwlists at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 2 19:08:47 GMT 2008


Now that the building-outlines have been done in London and elsewhere,
and with flight-simulator projects asking about 3D data, it might be
worth tagging the heights of some skyscrapers.

Every significant building has a wikipedia article, nearly all of
which include details of the height

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Canada_Square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Skyscrapers_by_city


what other tags can you think of for describing buildings?  Some
peoples' ideas are at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building_attributes


To see progress in a city, Kosmos seems to be capable of drawing
things differently according to their height, e.g. there's an example
rule in:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Kosmos_AirNav_Rules#Tall_buildings



p.s. will anyone make an isometric slippy-map next?




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