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sternwurzel

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Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 2

Tagging houses, buildings, factory buildings?

Hello!

Is there any easy way to tag buildings like big houses, factories and farmhouses ?
I have not found any information on the "Map Feature List" how to tag single buildings          ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features )

When I click to an already existing house (with potlatch) than the tags of the building are shown as:
[car-symbol]  [ (no preset) ]
[    building   ]  [    yes   ]

But I still haven't succeed to add those tags by my own.

Any idea?

\sternwurzel

JRA

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Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 677

Re: Tagging houses, buildings, factory buildings?

Hi,

You must add tags manually either by pressing "+" tool in Potlatch or keyboard plus sign.  Any value of "building" tag make it to render.  In theory building=residential could be rendered in some other way than building=commercial and so on, but usually it is just building=yes.  Add name tag if building has some well known name.

sternwurzel

Member

Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 2

Re: Tagging houses, buildings, factory buildings?

Thanks a lot! - It works now!

\sternwurzel