Proposed features/Building attributes

Building attributes

Status: Draft

Proposed-by: *

Tagging: building.<various>=<various>

Applies-to: area

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This tagging scheme relates to Proposed features/Building

To use these attributes, add building=yes to an area:

Key	Description	Example values	Notes
building:height	Approximate height	7 m 44 m 541 m 300 ft 60 yd	For use in 3D apps Includes well-known abbreviation of a lenght measure
building:roof	Roofing material	Tile Slate Flat Concrete	For texturing surfaces in 3D apps
building:cladding		Glass (skyscrapers) GlassFront (shops) Brick Wood	"
building:type	General "type" or design of building	Skyscraper House Hall Supermarket/Mall Fuel_station Manor_house Hangar Fort
building:architecture	Architectural style	Georgian Victorian Gothic Retro futurist	[1]
building:levels	Number of stories of the building	50
building:use	Main use of the building	Shop Residential Office Decorative
building:model	URL of 3D model of the building	http://somehost.com/building32.2dm
building:levelPlan	What each storey is used for	0-2: shop, 3-12: residential 0: restaurant, 1: residential -1: unused, 0: lobby, 1: restuarant, 2-12: offices, 13: unused, 14-66: offices,

A more detailed level definition is possible:

Key	Description	Example values	Notes
building:levels:underground	Number of levels underground	0/no/false (No underground levels) 3 (A building with three underground levels)
building:levels:aboveground	Number of levels above ground. Includes the ground floor.	0/no/false (A building all underground; no ground floor at all) 1 (Just a ground floor) 10 (Ten storeys) 150 (a skyscraper)
building:levels:mezzanine	Whenever the building has a mezzanine[2] between the ground floor and the first floor.	0/no/false (No mezzanine) 1/yes/true 2 (Mezzanine as high as two floors)	If the mezzanine(s) is(are) high enough as to fill up the vertical equivalent of more than one floor, it should be noted.
building:levels:top	The kind of top floor, if applicable.	no/false/roof (standard) garden, gardens and roof gardens [3] terrace [4], also roof terraces porch [5] balcony (used in small sections of buildings) patio [6] verandah [7] attic [8]	"Top floor" means "above all aboveground levels". It can only exist if you can walk on it (i.e. a slanted roof covered in roof tiles does not qualify) Can be used in conjunction with "building:levels:aboveground=0" to denote special constructions at ground level (e.g. porchs). A "roof terrace" is a roof garden, with no trees whatsoever.