Osm Roof Shapes

Additional roof shapes are suggested in s3db proposals including advanced approaches for manual modelling e g proposedrooflines or parts of osm 4d roof table.

Osm roof shapes.

Either all ways below roof or the roof should get a layer tag. 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. This section is a wiki template editable here. In case of ways below the roof.

After the roof shape has been drawn it should be moved to match the location on the ground level. Simple 3d buildings on the osm wiki defines several roof shapes. In addition covered may be used to mark objects for example roads as covered by the roof. Hipped left and gabled right roof shapes.

How to tag roof orientation for roof shape side hipped and similar roof shapes. Josm q key if so desired. 0 i am trying to identify rooftops of all buildings for a part of a city. 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.

This should be self explaining. To accomplish that move the way until the corner of the roof touches the best visible corner edge of the building. However they all seem to be mostly symmetric. I have heard that we can do that in osm.