On 07/09/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Fairhurst</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dave Stubbs wrote:<br><br>> The oneway problem (I have no idea if the street is defined in the right<br>> direction).<br><br>You can tell the direction by looking at the little arrow button-like<br>thing in the bottom left. (It'll be clickable when we move to
0.5, and<br>will swap directions.)<br><br>> Merging ways.<br><br>Guess what? Shift-click. :) Basically: take the end-point of one way,<br>then shift-click the end-point of the next. If they're currently the<br>same point, then remove the node from one (press '-')' first.
<br><br>> Part of the problem<br>> is that it sometimes feels like magic and I'm not sure what's going to<br>> happen when I do something... I'm one of these people who like to know<br>> what's going on under the cover a bit, and Potlatch is scarey because edits
<br>> are live and not undoable.<br><br>I've been thinking about sandbox/non-write modes for a while, will<br>have something to show before too long.<br><br>> The other thing I find is quite a lot of the traced ways are tagged as
<br>> unclassified... I replace these with residential where appropriate and<br>> do this by selecting them all and then setting the tag on all of<br>> them -- you can't do this is Potlatch.<br><br>No, very true. Remember you can press R to repeat the attributes from
<br>the previously selected way, though, or shift-R to repeat the<br>attributes except name and ref.</blockquote><div><br><br>Ah, press-shift... :-)<br><br>That's actually my one and only criticism of Potlatch: most of it's functionality is hidden away behind mouse and keyboard incantations. By no means an easy thing to solve without cluttering the display of course... I hate designing GUIs, it's so difficult to get right.
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