[Buildingdata] Re: Levels (Dammit)

[Alexander Dutton]

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On 05/09/11 11:52, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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

Just to be awkward, there may be cases where you want to skip the
building part, and have rooms directly within sites. College sites
generally contain lots of bits of building with vague boundaries, and
whose rooms are referenced either by staircase or quad (and where
knowing the building isn't overly helpful.

For example, within the building between Pusey and Hayward in
<http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/keble/> there are the JCR, MCR,
Pusey Room, and the alumni office. The JCR is accessed from Hayward
Quad, and all the others from Pusey.

Mind you, I've given up trying to model this for now. :-S

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

The vertical-instead-of-horizontal worldview brought on by staircases
might well be expressable in terms of building sections (or 'spaces'
in the current Oxford model).


Yours,

Alexander "Oxford isn't quite in the real world" Dutton

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Alexander Dutton
Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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