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How do you map and tag a screened porch?

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The question is fairly self-explanatory...I can't find a building=porch or material=screen or the like. What is the common way to do this?

asked 04 Sep '14, 03:05

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According to Taginfo the tag 'building=porch' has been used 13 times already so it looks like other users have gone down the same track as you. Not sure what to do about the material. There is a tag building:material=* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:material which seems to relate to rendering on 3D maps. Perhaps someone else could advise whether it is ok to use this tag with the value 'screen'

answered 04 Sep '14, 04:03

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