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Infer Building Height If Given Levels?

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Hello!

I am wondering if Overture would want to infer the height of a building when given the number of levels but not the height itself.

For example, in the explorer, if you zoom here: https://explore.overturemaps.org/#18.79/43.6466092/-79.3921981/0/57

There is a hotel composed of a bunch of parts, but it renders like a pancake because there's no explicit height:

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This seems to be fairly common in Toronto in my clicking around.

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