[OSM-talk] How to add, edit, remove tag for an object without Potlatch, Merkaartor or JOSM ?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2012/9/13 LIVINE Christin <lcn at mail.pf>:
> - I select | Name : France, Europe | Type : boundary | Class Type :
> administrative | Bounds : … |. At the bottom, a red message appears :
> - I select | Name : Japan, Asia | Type : place | Class Type : country |
> Bounds : … |.
> What's the difference ?


In the France case you found an administrative boundary (surrounding
all of France) in the Japan case I suspect you found a place node
(just a single node) representing vaguely "the country".

If you want to add another name-tag to one of these and you don't want
to deal with overpass or other external APIs you can also simply zoom
into the map and download a small part where at least one node of the
desired boundary is contained. Then you edit the relation (could also
be a way, but generally you will find relations) and add your name tag
(no need to download the whole relation, but you could also do it
(e.g. from inside the relation editor in JOSM you click on download
incomplete members) to check consistency, if you don't do it then
better not touch the geometry but change only tags).

Cheers,
Martin