[Buildingdata] Re: Levels (Dammit)

[Nick Gibbins]

That's local usage, certainly - I was suggesting a case at another institution where the room number to level number mapping isn't as obvious. 
-- 
Dr Nicholas Gibbins

On 23 Aug 2011, at 13:35, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Level numbers are defined as the first digit in a 4 digit room code. The 
> 2nd digit is room function and the remaining two are an incrementing 
> number for that floor/purpose. eg. I'm in 3213 Which is Floor "3", 
> "Office" number "13".
> 
> All that really matters is that some important people want the floor 
> data to appear on
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/org/F1.html
> To say that the Deanery is on Floor 4 of Building 4. And it's smart to 
> keep 'em happy.
> 
> On 23/08/11 13:28, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>> Such is life.
>> 
>> If you're going to try and model this, you might want to have a look at the University of Leeds; from what I remember, they have (or at least had c. the early 90s) a level numbering scheme that's altitude based, so that floors at the same altitude had the same level number (the campus is built on a slope, with elevated walkways connecting some buildings).
> 
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