On 25/05/2015, pmailkeey . <pmailk...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> There are two distinct needs : enabling software to sort levels >> for rendering and navigation purposes, and the need to show the >> textual name that humans expect. The "level=*" key is currently used >> for the fist case (otherwise you'd see a lot more text values in >> taginfo). > > Not necessarily as many buildings' floor names are numeric in nature.
Out of 127k uses, the first non-numeric level=* value in taginfo is "unknown" (94 uses / 0.07%). Then come "story_1" (44 uses), "story_2" (32), "from -1 to -2" (23), "primary" (17), "secondary" (16), "blue" (10) and finally "UG" (6). I think that if level=* was somewhat regularly used for the *name* of a floor, we'd see a lot more of "Ground floor", "Lobby" or "G". The idea that "4th floor" gets abbreviated to "4" doesn't explain the values seen in taginfo. The only reason I see is that level=* is not a name but a synthetic value used for OSM internals, just like leyer=*. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
