Re: [Talk-ca] Building tags in Canada

2020-01-16 Thread stevea
On Jan 16, 2020, at 3:56 PM, john whelan wrote: > I think what is in the wiki is a sort of dream. An accurate building date > for example is often difficult to determine. but probably it needs a sort of > low hanging fruit section of what should be easy to tag. One of the best parts of an

Re: [Talk-ca] Building tags in Canada

2020-01-16 Thread john whelan
That sort of works but doesn't include roof:levels. The easy tag would be building=detached but then you get building=house which can be used for a semi detached house. Locally we have some split levels so a single floor at ground level then a garage often slightly sunk with another room or two

Re: [Talk-ca] Building tags in Canada

2020-01-16 Thread stevea
On Jan 16, 2020, at 2:37 PM, John Whelan wrote: > Is there somewhere that offers guidelines on how to add additional tags? and > which tags are more interesting and which should be avoided? For example > country=Canada is probably superfluous. As it hasn't been touched in five months, I'm

[Talk-ca] Building tags in Canada

2020-01-16 Thread John Whelan
Part of the building import was the idea that once an outline was in place it could be tagged with more detail by someone with local knowledge. Sometimes some of this this information might be available from Mapillary. For example building=house rather than building=yes In Coburg there are a