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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon tordanik

roof:shape=pitched

Open hjanetzek opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

building:roof:shape=pitched is very popular (about 25000 according to taginfo) It is similar to gabled, but it seems pitched extends horizontally while gabled extends the roof line over the building outline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_pitch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabled_roof

for now one could just handle pitched as gabled imo. support for Crow-stepped gable would be awesome :)

hjanetzek avatar Mar 23 '13 14:03 hjanetzek

What is the difference between pitched and gabled roof?

kendzi avatar Mar 23 '13 18:03 kendzi

not so sure. gable area is the typically triangular area defined by the height and pitch angle but can have different forms. I would say pitch is only saying that the roof has a somewhat triangular shape, while gabled roof are distinguished by specific architectural styles which have different common pitch ranges and a particular gable area style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roof_shapes

hjanetzek avatar Mar 23 '13 19:03 hjanetzek

After all, for simplified rendering they should be treated the same. That's why I made the request

hjanetzek avatar Mar 23 '13 20:03 hjanetzek

If I remember correctly, we briefly talked about this at the Garching 3D Workshop and noticed that there were different guesses about the meaning of "pitched". Suggested interpretations were that it is a synonym for gabled or for skillion/monopitched/single-sloped, or maybe a common superset of those shapes.

The Wikipedia definition is quite vague, too, describing it as "a roof with a sloping surface or surfaces".

tordanik avatar Mar 23 '13 20:03 tordanik