[OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.0

[Shaun McDonald]

On 24 May 2009, at 09:57, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:18, Richard Fairhurst  
> <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>> Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>>> Great work. It all seems somewhat snappier. Love the offline editing
>>> feature already.
>>
>> Glad you like it (and others, thanks for the kind comments). :)
>>
>>> Still no 'building' preset?
>>
>> What would you like to see the preset as? I'm no tagging guru.
>>
>
> Simply adding building=yes to the autocomplete list would encourage
> mappers to use it. There's no real preset there even I think - it's
> just having it appear in the autocomplete list act as encouragement to
> use it. Buildings are rendered by both mapnik and osmarender, so I
> guess that means its use is widely accepted.
>
> It might look a little strange though, come to think of it, because
> building=no is not used afaik..

That is because generally building=* is rendered for any area.

I would recommend having a series of building tags, such as offices,  
shop, apartments, house, warehouse, station, dome, tower,  
white_elephant, etc.

Shaun

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