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

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Jeremy Stocks <jeremyll33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> 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?

You might be expecting to do more than required.  If you have drawn
the building outline, and tagged it as a building then you are done.
In the advanced view you have a tag building=yes to designate a
generic building.  It could be anything; a home, a hospital, a
hovercraft store.

You may then consider adding more information, like address details,
or further tags for Points of Interest.  But for a home, building=yes
and address tags are all that are needed.