Osm Roof Types

The lower slope is so steep that it can look like a vertical wall with dormers.

Osm roof types.

Depending on a home s architecture a roof can potentially make up 40 of the exterior often playing a big role. Most of the roof types we have reviewed can be outfitted with either asphalt shingles metal or tile slate wood. Roof designs shapes styles. Building roof and building bridge even describe buildings which have except its piers no outline on the ground.

Names for roof types. Buildings can be mapped in openstreetmap. You can write 0 0 or flat we are working on understandable description for every roof types. 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.

However they all seem to be mostly symmetric. 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. Often incorporating two or more designs for aesthetics and practical reasons combination roofs can feature a range of styles. A clerestory and hip roof for example.

The second empire style eisenhower executive office building in washington dc has a high mansard roof. Roof table building attributes 0 0 flat 1 0 skillion 2 0 gabled. Types of hip roofs. Scripts for adding roof information to open street map input.

A mansard roof has two slopes on each of the four sides. The sides come together at the top to form a simple ridge. A combination roof is quite literally a combination of types of roofs. Don t tag for the renderer for more details on this topic see tagging for the renderer.

Purpose of this script is adding this data to osm. Their shapes can be turned into 3d models for use in flightgear scenery. It has a polygon on two sides and a triangle on two sides. The 3d roof forms are.

The same holds for underground buildings like building cellar or those building types which are tagged with location underground. 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. The data already contains osm id s so spatial joining is not needed. Hip roofs like gable roofs can be with almost any type of roofing material such as shingles metal or tiles.

Simple 3d buildings on the osm wiki defines several roof shapes. 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. Osm generated buildings and roads. The most common type of a hip roof.

Houses with gable roofs. 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. This data has been mapped on aerial imagery in an offline id editor setup.