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Originally Posted by Harley613
Rocketphish, can we please reopen the dialogue about building heights? The international standard is to architectural tip. Every city on Earth that has a wiki for building heights measures by architectural tip. The CTBUH standards are to architectural tip. The elevations clearly show 72m to the top of the mechanical penthouse. I don't know why you have to trigger my clinical OCD like this 
Edit: even SSP's own diagrams section show architectural tip. I could be wrong, but I believe every single page for every region and section on SSP registers height to architectural tip. |
Wait - are the building heights in the Ottawa forum titles all lower than the real height?
If so - I vote for showing the actual height above grade.
It's one thing to leave out the underground levels in the floor count, since they're invisible to the public, but not to arbitrarily leave off some of the height above ground.
What if there are two buildings of the exact same physical height (say 100m):
- building A has a penthouse apartment and mechanical penthouse on the top floor - so we list it as 100m - since there's an occupied floor
- but building B only has a mechanical penthouse at the top - do we we list that as 95m (or minus whatever the top level height is)?
That wouldn't make any sense...