in potlatch 2, you draw start by drawing a line, tracing around the object, and closing the loop by clicking the start point.
You now have a closed loop element. (also known as a Closed Way osm.wiki/Element#Area_.28closed_way_.29 )
To tag the way as something, click a line segment, and it will highlight the whole loop. Then from your menu, you can pick things like 'land use' being a sports field, or Building to be a building or a school, etc.
When you highlight an area, and you drew it by tracing imagery, press the B key on the keyboard, and it will add a 'source = bing" tag .. this helps prove to the world that your building came from an open source, rather than copying a copyrighted map.
you should take a look at the wiki (click the documentation link at the left). The OSM wiki has great info about pretty much every tag in OSM. If you're new to OSM, you should click on "Beginners guide" and read what it tells you.
Hello Seth if you do not manage with Potlach 2 and want to work with pleasure with another software downloads to you Merkaartor (http: // merkaartor.be/). I manage with that best of all.
You can easily draw a rectangle an give them a tag named building yes
Greetings Rainer
Thank you for asking the community, before proceeding with a best guess. A good general rule in OSM is that if you do not know how to do something review and copy from best practice areas mapped such as in the US, UK or Germany where multiple mappers have worked and reviewed each others edits, so should be about right.
Rainer111 mentioned Merkator, JOSM is also very well developed, and once you start using a desktop editor ( as opposed to Potlatch ) you will not look back. The investment in effort to learn either of these very useful and stable tools is well worth the payback.
start out with potlatch 2 and once you get the hang of how OSM works, you could switch to a more complex editor like JOSM or Merkaartor. Or you could just stick with potlatch.
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Comment from z-dude on 20 January 2011 at 22:10
in potlatch 2, you draw start by drawing a line, tracing around the object, and closing the loop by clicking the start point.
You now have a closed loop element. (also known as a Closed Way osm.wiki/Element#Area_.28closed_way_.29 )
To tag the way as something, click a line segment, and it will highlight the whole loop. Then from your menu, you can pick things like 'land use' being a sports field, or Building to be a building or a school, etc.
When you highlight an area, and you drew it by tracing imagery, press the B key on the keyboard, and it will add a 'source = bing" tag .. this helps prove to the world that your building came from an open source, rather than copying a copyrighted map.
Comment from compdude on 20 January 2011 at 22:42
you should take a look at the wiki (click the documentation link at the left). The OSM wiki has great info about pretty much every tag in OSM. If you're new to OSM, you should click on "Beginners guide" and read what it tells you.
Comment from Sundance on 20 January 2011 at 23:36
Another useful site is this wikipedia page, it has the official names for various state highways;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_highways_in_the_United_States#State_highways_and_other_similar_systems
FYI: the official names for interstates and US Highways are ...
Interstate XX
Business Loop XXX
Business Spur XXX
United States Route XX
Comment from rainer111 on 21 January 2011 at 08:06
Hello Seth if you do not manage with Potlach 2 and want to work with pleasure with another software downloads to you Merkaartor (http: // merkaartor.be/). I manage with that best of all.
You can easily draw a rectangle an give them a tag named building yes
Greetings Rainer
Comment from Anna_AG on 21 January 2011 at 16:24
Hi Seth
Thank you for asking the community, before proceeding with a best guess. A good general rule in OSM is that if you do not know how to do something review and copy from best practice areas mapped such as in the US, UK or Germany where multiple mappers have worked and reviewed each others edits, so should be about right.
Rainer111 mentioned Merkator, JOSM is also very well developed, and once you start using a desktop editor ( as opposed to Potlatch ) you will not look back. The investment in effort to learn either of these very useful and stable tools is well worth the payback.
bri
Comment from compdude on 21 January 2011 at 16:52
start out with potlatch 2 and once you get the hang of how OSM works, you could switch to a more complex editor like JOSM or Merkaartor. Or you could just stick with potlatch.