<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">That sort of works but doesn't include roof:levels.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The easy tag would be building=detached but then you get building=house which can be used for a semi detached house.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Locally we have some split levels so a single floor at ground level then a garage often slightly sunk with another room or two on top. building:levels=?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm tempted by the idea of using Streetcomplete's set of suggested tags.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Postcode is fine if you know it but it isn't always obvious from looking at the building on the outside.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think what is in the wiki is a sort of dream. An accurate building date for example is often difficult to determine. but probably it needs a sort of low hanging fruit section of what should be easy to tag.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 17:49, stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Jan 16, 2020, at 2:37 PM, John Whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is there somewhere that offers guidelines on how to add additional tags? and which tags are more interesting and which should be avoided? For example country=Canada is probably superfluous.<br>
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As it hasn't been touched in five months, I'm not sure how applicable the wiki<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped</a><br>
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is, relevant to how "this" is being done today. This effort's wikis and approaches have changed — and grown!— since that document was drafted.<br>
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But, that section does indicate that OSM's "key building=* currently has over 60 documented values" and the "man_made=* key now has over 50 documented values." I do recall when I selected eight or ten of the values noted there that I was largely making educated guesses. But now, as is true of wiki, especially during a project that is still sort of "wet cement being mixed" (nothing wrong with that, it has to happen, it happens well now) please feel free to modify these values as you see fit. It was meant to be a starting point, may you continue with it as well as possible. (Or not).<br>
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SteveA</blockquote></div>