MappingDC OSM Editing Tips and Tricks

On Wednesday this week we are having the first edition of “OSM Editing Tips and Tricks” for MappingDC. Every time I get together with other OpenStreetMap contributors I learn something that makes it easier to edit/add data to OSM. The last time I edited together in a room with others was at WhereCamp5280. Mostly then I learned short-cut keys for Potlatch and I had for some reason missed how to add tags that were not in the short-cuts such as “building=yes” from Potlatch. Up until that point I had been digitizing off the Yahoo Imagery and then going into JOSM to clean things up. This method sounds totally inefficient now.

We are meeting at HacDC which is at 1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC 20010 at 7pm. Hope to see you there.