Streetcomplete: Show note about how to count floors

[rugk]

The floor question does not show how to count the floors? In different countries the ground/first floor is counted, in some it is not. When a new OSM user uses this app, they do not know how to do it here, so it should definitively be noted/shown somewhere.

[johnwhelan]

Locally we have buildings that number 1,2,3, G,2,3 some have a 13th floor but many do not.

However they all have physical floors and I think the count of physical floors is what should be in the map not what they are called.

I don't think you need a Ph.D. in floor counting to count them.

[rugk]

😂
No but you need to know that the first floor also counts as a floor. Without this information also someone with a Ph.D. cannot reliability enter the number of floors there.

[johnwhelan]

And for those buildings with no 13th floor?

[westnordost]

Guys, just stand in front of a building and count the windows one over another, you do not need to go inside!
As said, I will add an illustration.

[rugk]

Nice, maybe also adding the "physical", i.e. "physical floor", you mentioned in another comment, makes the whole thing already much clearer.

[cstackpole]

I had a similar question. Nearly all of the houses in the neighborhoods that surround me have basements. Do they count?
Some of the houses look like two stories from the front, but they are considered basements because ground level is floor one in the back yard. Some basements are completely finished while others are unfinished. Not sure what the proper way of counting these should be.

[johnwhelan]

If you look at the wiki

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels

It does describe it fairly well. Currently streetcomplete does not handle all cases.

[westnordost]

See ticket #41, I added an illustration and shortened the phrasing. One image says more than 1000 words.