When walking around with StreetComplete I often see buildings with half a flight of steps up to the main entrance and very visible windows in a half buried floor. At what point do you normally start counting this lower level in building:levels?
The building:levels page says ‘For the purposes of this tag, “ground level” is defined to be the lowest entrance to a building.’ but:
- lower entrances might not be visible from the street in larger houses and
- terraces with steep steps down into a trench in front of the house to access the door of the basement flat definitely feels like that’s an access to
building:levels:underground
At what point are people generally treating a partially exposed level as building:levels rather than basement levels? Should we just start using half levels for this to avoid confusion? (i.e. the second picture below is building:levels=2.5,roof:levels=1
I would definitely start the building:levels count above this window:
But what about this one? Would a gate and steps down to the level of the half exposed windows (in addition to the main entrance) change how you tag this?
