Tagging multiple objects prevents single object changes.

General talk
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I’m sure this has been addressed somewhere, but I couldn’t find it…

I’ve started adding buildings (houses) to my local area along with street names and numbers. I thought I’d make my life easier by tracing in the buildings, highlighting them all, adding building=house and addr:street=streetname. Excellent, I thought, that works, now to add the street numbers on an individual level.

I highlighted just one building, added addr:housenumber=1, click the next building, it already has addr:housenumber=1, so I changed it to addr:housenumber=3. Highlight the next building, it has addr:housenumber=3, so I change it to addr:housenumber=5. Check both 1 and 3 and they have now changed to addr:housenumber=5.

So, what am I doing wrong? It would save an awful lot of clicking and typing if I could add bulk tags first and individual tags later.

Thanks for your help!

Chris

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Please name the editor your using. Potlatch? JOSM? Mercator?

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I’m using Potlatch in the browser.

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I’m using JOSM and it works as expected with this editor.