Skip to content

Residential and non-residential Buildings

Option „Residential Building“

By default, a building gets marked as a „Residential Building“. For other types of buildings this options may be deactivated. When calculating the population density only the residential buildings are considered.

Graphical Appearance

Residential buildings and non-residential buildings may use different hatchings.

Residential building and non-residential building with different filling

There are two ways to achieve this:

  • For this, create a second layer of type „Simple“ for the object type „Building“ on the Appearance dialog (on the Options menu, see Object Appearance) with a different filling and enter the following expressions: WG_NUM == 0 (for non-residential buildings) and WG_NUM! = 0 (for residential buildings).

Dialog Appearance for object type „Building“

  • Alternative, activate for the object type „Building“ the option „Legacy Display“ on the Appearance dialog (on the Options menu, see Object Appearance) and select on the „Fill“ tab the filling type shown below (3rd in the list):In this case, residential buildings will be displayed with this hatching and non-residential buildings with a vertical hatching.

Residents

The number of residents is a characteristic of the buildings. The value is displayed as an integer value, despite figures with decimals result when calculating the population density (see Population Density).