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Mapping a horizontal crevasse

Posted by Baloo Uriza on 5 August 2009 in English.

How do you handle streets and buildings that weren't originally underground, but now are? There appears to be a village near a faultline that suffers severely from this phenomenon ( http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/town-devoured-by-rock/10450 ). This one has me legitimately confused. I looked up this location hoping that I might find some interesting map renderings, but discover there's only a single road listed on OSM for that village!

Location: 36.864, -5.182
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Comment from Minh Nguyen on 6 August 2009 at 06:18

The best I can come up with is adding https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tunnel=yes wherever the road dips into the cliffside, and maybe https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tunnel=yes and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:area=yes (just in case) on any “covered” buildings. But I’m pretty sure none of the renderers do anything special with “tunnel buildings”.

Comment from PhilippeP on 6 August 2009 at 07:53

Well from what I understand , the buidings were build directly inside the caves, the caves did not build around the houses ....
You can also add a maxheight tag for routing purposes but it does not qualify as a tunnel in my mind.

Comment from Skippern on 9 August 2009 at 08:15

Maybe layer=-1 or layer=-2 is the right way?

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