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

[David Fawcett]

Potlatch2 does have a pre-set for buildings.  (At least for polygons.)

Using the Simple menu, select the drop-down that says 'unknown'.  You can
then select the 'Buildings' category and the 'Buliding' item.

David.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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