Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread Richard
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 04:21:37PM +, John Karr wrote: Hi, somewhat sidelining the issue, you can always add key:ele which should circumvent most pittfalls as long as it is present on all interesting objects. Richard ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread Simon Poole
Hi John IMHO (but others disagree), the model in SIT is simply to number the levels sequentially , starting with 0 (where ever the appropriate ground floor is) and leave everything else to labelling/naming of levels. But as already said, others disagree and we even already make a bit of an

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-12-21 17:47 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale : > Hallo John, > > A level is not a unit of measurement like a metre or a kilogram. If level > 1.5 exists, it only tells you that it is between level 1 and level 2. If a > landing on a staircase between level 1 and level 2 is to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread Colin Smale
Hallo John, A level is not a unit of measurement like a metre or a kilogram. If level 1.5 exists, it only tells you that it is between level 1 and level 2. If a landing on a staircase between level 1 and level 2 is to be assigned a level, it wouldn't make any difference if you called it 1.1 or

[OSM-talk] Questions about levels and fractional levels as well as how to handle them.

2017-12-21 Thread John Karr
Hello All, I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask this question. I'm new to the OSM community and had a question which I hear is very controversial. I’m part of a team working on an app for indoor navigation using simple indoor tagging. The audience for this app are individuals who are