
Tagging - iD editor Updated 2019-06-28 Tagging - iD editor Why Tags are needed Tags - a brief explanation Relations - such as buildings with a courtyard or islands in a river See also Why Tags are needed Without a tag an item has no meaning and maps will not show it. The tag explains to the computer what the feature actually is. If you find something where the tag has been ‘missed’, please add the tag. If an item is tagged it will have a colour, such as the red hue to the building tagged in the image above. If it’s white investigate and add the tag if it’s been missed. The author of the project in the Tasking Manager does not know which editor the mapper will be using, so the instructions can often have a comment similar to this; Buildings are generally round huts and should be tagged as Building Features / Building* in iD and building=yes in JOSM.* If you need to check what tag is actually on an item, click on it, then scroll to the bottom of the tagging pane and look under All Tags Tags - a brief explanation If you select an item and click on All tags you will see a label such as building yes This is the most basic building tag, and is the recommended tag when tracing buildings from a task on the Tasking Manager. If you know exactly what the building is, then you would use a more detailed tag such as; building house building school or one of many other tags. For more detailed information on tagging buildings see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buildings See the Highways section of this HOT-tips section for more information about tagging highways. Relations - such as buildings with a courtyard or islands in a river Some features have their tags on a Relation not on the feature itself. If you see on your screen mention of a relation, as a complete beginner the best advice is to ‘leave alone’. For more information on relations (not a beginner subject) see; LearnOSM - JOSM - Relations which explains relations but uses a different OSM editor, or https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation See also For a more comprehensive list of tags see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features Subtitles available in some languages Vissza az oldal tetejére Hasznos volt-e ez a fejezet? Írd meg az észrevételeid, és segíts, hogy tovább javíthassuk az útmutatókat!

Tagging - iD editor

Updated 2019-06-28

Tagging - iD editor
- Why Tags are needed
  - Tags - a brief explanation
  - Relations - such as buildings with a courtyard or islands in a river
- See also

tagging

Why Tags are needed

Without a tag an item has no meaning and maps will not show it. The tag explains to the computer what the feature actually is. If you find something where the tag has been ‘missed’, please add the tag. If an item is tagged it will have a colour, such as the red hue to the building tagged in the image above. If it’s white investigate and add the tag if it’s been missed.

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The author of the project in the Tasking Manager does not know which editor the mapper will be using, so the instructions can often have a comment similar to this;

Buildings are generally round huts and should be tagged as Building Features / Building in iD and building=yes in JOSM.

If you need to check what tag is actually on an item, click on it, then scroll to the bottom of the tagging pane and look under All Tags

Tags - a brief explanation

If you select an item and click on All tags you will see a label such as

building yes

This is the most basic building tag, and is the recommended tag when tracing buildings from a task on the Tasking Manager.

If you know exactly what the building is, then you would use a more detailed tag such as;
building house
building school
or one of many other tags. For more detailed information on tagging buildings see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buildings

See the Highways section of this HOT-tips section for more information about tagging highways.

Relations - such as buildings with a courtyard or islands in a river

Some features have their tags on a Relation not on the feature itself. If you see on your screen mention of a relation, as a complete beginner the best advice is to ‘leave alone’.

For more information on relations (not a beginner subject) see;

LearnOSM - JOSM - Relations which explains relations but uses a different OSM editor, or
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation

Tagging - iD editor

Why Tags are needed

Tags - a brief explanation

Relations - such as buildings with a courtyard or islands in a river

See also