Osm Roof Types

Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles.

Osm roof types.

The lower slope is so steep that it can look like a vertical wall with dormers. The upper slope has a low pitch and is not easily seen from the ground. Building roof and building bridge even describe buildings which have except its piers no outline on the ground. This page collects a list of 3d roof forms and is the part of osm 4d definition and as this part of the 3d building definition.

Scripts for adding roof information to open street map input. Simple 3d buildings on the osm wiki defines several roof shapes. Hip roofs like gable roofs can be with almost any type of roofing material such as shingles metal or tiles. Most of the roof types we have reviewed can be outfitted with either asphalt shingles metal or tile slate wood.

However depending on the style you select you may need to account for roof slope cost of additional construction geographic location relative to the ocean and wind patterns as well regional weather conditions. The 3d roof forms are. Houses with gable roofs. Types of hip roofs.

The file roof types sxm csv contains the data from a manually mapped session. The same holds for underground buildings like building cellar or those building types which are tagged with location underground. Osm generated buildings and roads. A mansard roof has two slopes on each of the four sides.

Roof table building attributes 0 0 flat 1 0 skillion 2 0 gabled. The most common type of a hip roof. 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. Depending on a home s architecture a roof can potentially make up 40 of the exterior often playing a big role.

A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs. This data has been mapped on aerial imagery in an offline id editor setup. The second empire style eisenhower executive office building in washington dc has a high mansard roof. If you re getting a new roof or building an addition on your home that requires extra roof space then you may want to familiarize yourself with some of the most common roof designs and how they impact your choice of roofing materials.

The data already contains osm id s so spatial joining is not needed. Roof designs shapes styles. Don t tag for the renderer for more details on this topic see tagging for the renderer. Buildings can be mapped in openstreetmap.

A clerestory and hip roof for example. Their shapes can be turned into 3d models for use in flightgear scenery. Names for roof types. For this type of wood it is most often seen when building a hostel in vietnam you can refer to alo nha tro for more details.

However they all seem to be mostly symmetric. Purpose of this script is adding this data to osm. You can write 0 0 or flat we are working on understandable description for every roof types.