Osm Roof Shapes

If there are already other features below or above the roof on the map layer should be used to provide information about stacking of features.

Osm roof shapes.

This tag should be added for roof shapes. Josm q key if so desired. I have heard that we can do that in osm. 0 i am trying to identify rooftops of all buildings for a part of a city.

This should be self explaining. Simple 3d buildings on the osm wiki defines several roof shapes. In the area where i was thinking of tagging roof shapes it is a very common pattern to have the roof be hipped towards the end of the building that faces the street and gabled in the back. To accomplish that move the way until the corner of the roof touches the best visible corner edge of the building.

In case of ways below the roof. Hipped left and gabled right roof shapes. However they all seem to be mostly symmetric. Additional roof shapes are suggested in s3db proposals including advanced approaches for manual modelling e g proposedrooflines or parts of osm 4d roof table.

How to identify rooftop in osm. After the roof shape has been drawn it should be moved to match the location on the ground level. This section is a wiki template editable here. How to tag roof orientation for roof shape side hipped and similar roof shapes.