[OSM-newbies] Rendering houses from POIs

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Donald Campbell II
<donaciano2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently took a trip upriver to 2 small villages out in the back areas of
> Guyana.  Orealla and Siparuta.   Haven't had internet for over a week so I
> finally got to upload my changes today.  Now checking out the rendering I
> see that none of the houses I marked show up on the map.
> There's really nothing else out there if you can't see the houses. :-)  I
> used POIs with building=yes.  If you take a look at the data you'll see a
> lot more interesting village with the houses showing up.
> So without inventing an area around each POI, is there anything I can do to
> make them render?

>From a quick look, it seems that you have the place-node, some
highways, and some POIs in place.  Congratulations.  You've put a
remote village on the map!  ;-)

If you have some photos of these houses, or the town square, etc.
combined with your waypoints you might take an educated guess at
building dimensions and relative locations.  Your recollection of the
building position w.r.t. the roads should help you, and if you are off
by a bit, another editor can fix it when they re-survey.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=5.23793&lon=-57.29217&zoom=17&layers=M