Now that we have identified the official name, address, and general location of the Houston School of Carpentry, we need to find its exact building in the online editor.
To verify the correct building, you can use commercial online map applications and search engines that show an "on-the-ground" view of a street. When this information is available, it may help to confirm a building's true location by allowing you to see the names on buildings, signs or other identifying features.
Keep in mind however, that the imagery used by different sources may be inconsistent and is not always correct.
Although the official website for the Houston School of Carpentry does not have a picture of the outside of their building, we can use multiple map search engines to identify the building that might belong to the school. Some map search engines might actually place a location marker on a specific building, but we still need to confirm that this is the correct building:
We can then use an "on-the-ground" view of that building to look for signs or labels that might help us confirm the building's true location.
Using the “on-the-ground” view of the Houston School of Carpentry in a map search engine, we can see that there are signs hanging on the fence around this building advertising the Houston School of Carpentry.
Zoom out in the map search engine to see what the building looks like from above, and try to identify that same building in the online map editor. It might be helpful to use several different map search engines to identify the correct building.
Once the correct building for the Houston School of Carpentry has been confirmed, zoom in as far as you can in the online editor. It's important to zoom in as far as you can when placing points on the online editor map, because this helps ensure greater location accuracy. Remember, points should also be placed in the center of the building or facility.
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If you are editing an existing point, you can follow the same process to verify the exact location of a feature. Occasionally points that exist in the map don’t appear in the proper location and should be moved to the correct location.
Now that we have identified the correct building, we can add the Houston School of Carpentry feature to the map.
Click on a new "Technical/Trade School" icon in the editing window, then click on the middle of the building to place the point:
After a point is dropped on a building, it will be highlighted in blue. This means that the feature is selected and the editing window is open. You can now enter information about that feature.
