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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>It is great to see Potlatch continuing to develop
more and more useful functionality (see. <a
href="http://potlatchosm.wordpress.com/">http://potlatchosm.wordpress.com/</a>
for details). Undo is of course very handy and also the way to see the
background through the ways. I am now using Potlatch so much that I am
forgetting how to use JOSM and only use JOSM for a smaller number of jobs that
I can’t yet do in Potlatch.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>The new feature in 0.9 that I don’t think is
quite right is the ability to easily drag a way. In my experience it will be
done in error 99 times out of 100. If that mistake is done by someone who doesn’t
notice or who don’t know about undo then the data is damaged. Last night
I moved the section of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>
coastline instead of adjusting a single node. Can this function be made harder
to access by mistake please?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>For tiger cleanup (the motivation for dragging ways)
I have a few other requests:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>When one deletes a selected node on a way can
Potlatch then select the next point on the same way, so one can hit delete again
to delete a sequence of nodes in order (currently it selects the way itself).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>When a node on a way is selected then can the up and
down arrow keys be used to move along the nodes on the way. Can the left and
right keys be used to move to different ways connected to the same node. The
combination of the above three requests will allow one to navigate around the
model in a topological way rather than a Cartesian way that should be very
handy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>A way of bulk-deleting unnecessary ‘in-between’
nodes on the ways in the view where the node is associated with a single way,
has no other attributes and where the direction of the way hardly changes at
the node or where the nodes are very close together)? This would make a huge
difference to the efficiency of editing some parts of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> which have bonkers numbers of nodes on
curves (<st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State>
is very bad in this respect), and also where spurious nodes are added to
completely straight ways between junctions (again <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Washington</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place>
is bad here). This sort of batch-cleanup before starting to edit manually would
be very helpful. Possibly it should first show visually what it intends to
remove and then do it when one selects ‘ok’.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>The ability to drag a junction (where ways meet) to its
correct position and then have all the other in-between nodes scale to fit that
new junction position. This would be very handy for wiggly roads where the
scale and positions are both off, which happens quite a lot. I understand that
TeleAtlas used this approach when then imported Tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>A xxx_link tidyup function. Many areas have links of
the wrong type. Once one has got the main road network sorted one would ask Potlatch
to set the road classes of links correctly, so a motorway_link that connects a
primary road to a secondary road would be changed to ‘primary_link’.
Again this would save a lot of tedious manual work with a simple algorithm. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Finally in regard to Tiger cleanup Alan Miller as an
‘unbraiding’ script. Could this be included in Potlatch?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Regarding the release process, could Potlatch in
future go though a ‘beta’ release process where it is available initially
from a different URL so people can try any changes out and sort out wrinkles
before it goes on the main site?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Peter Miller</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=1 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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