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Posted by christianstorer on 24 July 2016 in English.

Learning how to edit; started adding some of my local subdivision. Looking for confirmation of tagging and techniques.

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Comment from Piskvor on 25 July 2016 at 08:15

Hello and welcome!

The edits look nice; may I have some suggestions on extra tags? The streets could use a surface=* tag (asphalt?), and perhaps lanes=* (2 is the usual count - one for each direction).

surface=*

lanes=*

As for buildings, could you add building:levels=* ? It’s a very useful hint e.g. for OsmBuildings.

building:levels=*

I’d also recommend wrapping the area in landuse=residential - see this one “next door”: way/316156882

Cheers, Piskvor

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