[Buildingdata] Re: Levels (Dammit)

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I know that bath has some weirdnesses with numbering levels on a sloped 
campus.  But the underlying model should always be, I believe:

Rooms are-in Buildings are-in Sites

plus optionally

Rooms are-in Building-Sections are-in Buildings
(where building-sections MAY be floors, or other groupings)

I think it's important to keep the room/building relationship for simple 
purposes and not force data consumers to extrapolate it. The only reason 
I need to describe floors is to say that a certain organisation is on 
Floor 4 of a building, but not a specific room.

Andy Turner wrote:
> Hi
>
> There is a major part of the University of Leeds that has the level
> system. From what I recall the room numbering does largely follow the
> level numbering, but this is broken down by building name. So room
> 8.02 in Mathematics for example would be room 02 on level 8 in the
> part of a building occupied by the School of Mathematics. Many Lecture
> Theatres have entrances and are on more than one level, and these have
> a different numbering system. Level 10 has more connectivity than many
> other levels. There is a named colour route called Red Route on this
> level with elevated corridors between some buildings and this carries
> a lot of pedestrian traffic. This may be a quirk of the Leeds campus
> being reasonably large and situated on a slope.
>
> Andy
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Nick Gibbins <nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>> 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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