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The floor level of the building that is either on-grade, or the closest floor to outside ground level. Commonly called ground floor, but also called ‘first floor’ in American terminology. On sloping sites the lowest floor level is called the ground floor.
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A building or group of buildings where buses stop, for loading and unloading of passengers.
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Where it is possible to specify directions, Direction X is parallel to street, and Direction Y is perpendicular (orthogonal) to street. In some cases, it is not possible to identify Direction X and Direction Y - thus the user can select Unspecified Direction.
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Direction Y is perpendicular (orthogonal) to the building facade that is parallel to the street. If there is no building facade parallel to the street, define Direction Y as 'Unspecified direction'.
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It is clear that the structural material is stone, but the type of stone masonry is unknown. The build-up of the wall may be hidden, as in the case of a plastered wall, or information about it is unavailable.
This is a stone masonry building, but there is a mix of technologies - street facade was built in dressed stone masonry and the other exterior wall is built using random rubble stone masonry (Halifax, Canada, S. Brzev)