[OSM-newbies] Capturing a simple home or residential dwelling in Potlatch

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jeremy Stocks <jeremyll33 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I am trying to get some armchair data entry done in Potlatch as my area is
> rather snowbound at the moment. So I thought I'd capture some missing
> buildings in my area.
>
>
> The problem is when I click on the outline of a building - a simple
> residential home - I am not sure how to capture it. Potlatch seem to expect
> I am going to capture a commercial building, a restaurant, or whatever on
> the left hand side. What am I doing wrong?
>

I don't think Potlatch2 (which is what you seem to be using, as basic
Potlatch has the things at the bottom, not the left) has a preset for
buildings. What you can do is click at the bottom of the left hand bar on
"Advanced". You now see  a kind of table with two columns, one titled "Key",
the other "Value". Click on the top row under "Key". You can now enter a
text there. Enter the text "building" and press enter. Next select the field
under "Value" next to that (if needed; it probably auto-selected when you
pressed enter). Here you fill in the text "yes" and press enter. You now
have added a building without any further data. You can go and add the next
building next, or you can press on 'Simple' at the bottom to get to the
entry form you're used to - in which case you'll see that you suddenly got
some more building options.


-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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