Osm Roof Shapes

Simple 3d buildings on the osm wiki defines several roof shapes.

Osm roof shapes.

0 i am trying to identify rooftops of all buildings for a part of a city. This should be self explaining. How to tag roof orientation for roof shape side hipped and similar roof shapes. This section is a wiki template editable here.

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. Draw along the outline of the roof apply rectangularization e g. To accomplish that move the way until the corner of the roof touches the best visible corner edge of the building. Either all ways below roof or the roof should get a layer tag.

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. In addition covered may be used to mark objects for example roads as covered by the roof. This tag should be added for roof shapes. Hipped left and gabled right roof shapes.

Josm q key if so desired. 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.