[HOT] Just a reminder -- areas, not points, for buildings

2015-04-29 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Hi, all, I was validating a square in Nepal and saw that someone had put in points rather than areas for buildings. Worse, they were tagged residential buildings. As with Liberia, the preferred way to do buildings is as areas. It's maddening sometimes to draw those little

Re: [HOT] Just a reminder -- areas, not points, for buildings

2015-04-29 Thread Dan Marsh
Tip: Use the JOSM editor if possible, and within JOSM's preferences, enable the buildings_tool plug-in. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools This makes it much easier and faster to trace and tag buildings! On 29 April 2015 at 21:01, Charlotte Wolter