Relation:building

building
Description
The building relation is used to group elements that form a building in simple 3D modelling. 
Group: Buildings
Members
  • - outline
  • - part
  • see description for further members
Status: in use
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag

Relations of type=building are used as one way to group elements that form a building in Simple 3D Buildings. Note that in many cases the added complexity of a relation is unnecessary--unless at least one part of a building is hanging over the building footprint, or the building has a complex structure with lots of parts, one can simply position building parts within a building outline as described in Simple 3D Buildings.

Disambiguation: This kind of relation modeling was also used for indoor mapping to group building levels, but with the introduction of Simple Indoor Mapping in 2012 these relations are deprecated. There was an earlier proposal for this tag in the context of address mapping, apparently abandoned in 2007.

Tagging

type=building are used in two contexts: 3D modelling and indoor mapping. We will here distinguish those two usages, however they can be combined in a same relation.

For 3D modelling

They relate building:part=yes, roof:ridge=yes and roof:edge=yes to a building outline.

Further details, in particular the properties that can be assigned to the individual parts of the building, are described in Simple_3D_Buildings.

Role Elements Recurrence Comment
outline oneThe area that makes up the building outline.
This outline must be tagged with building=*. The outline also holds any other tags (e.g. address, name, overall height, operator, ...) which apply to the building as a whole.
partone or moreBuilding parts, tagged with building:part=*. These parts differ from each other in terms of height, roof-shape, colour, material, ...
ridgezero or moreWays which make up the roof ridges of a building or building part.
edgezero or moreWays which make up the roof edges of a building or building part.

For indoor mapping

There are different approaches for indoor mapping.

Simple Indoor Tagging

The Simple_Indoor_Tagging scheme does not need additional relations for the levels.

IndoorOSM

IndoorOSM is a deprecated tagging scheme that has been replaced by Simple Indoor Tagging.

The IndoorOSM proposal defines separate relations per level type=level and groups them into the building entity. Each level has a level_n role, where n is the level number (level_0 for ground). Entrances can be added in the relation with the entrance role. See also entrance=* and amenity=parking_entrance

Role Elements Recurrence Comment
level_none or moreFor type=level relations, with n as the level number (level_-1, level_0, level_1, ...). There should be at least one member (level_0).
entranceone or moreBuilding entrances. There should be at least one member, the main entrance.

Examples

Examples tested 2014-12-15:

  • Simple building with 3 members, the main house as the outline, two cylindrical parts on top, one of them defining the dome-shaped roof:
  • More complex church building with some towers and different roof types:
  • Empire State Building
  • Indoor mapping example (with levels)

Further Demo areas here.

See also

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