[Merkaartor] Release notes

[Chris Browet]

I propose to remove the trackpoints default icons from the mapnik and
classic styles, as they seem to cause more bad than good.

We could keep them for mapnik+, though.

- Chris -

2008/8/1 bvh <bvh-osm at irule.be>

> For 0.11 I feel we need to mention the following two things in the
> release notes since they may surprise people (it suprised me)
>
> - if you use merkaartor on areas with substantial imported material
>  (from AND or TIGER like the Netherlands or USA), each node has at
>  least two tags related to that import. Hence merkaartor will higlight
>  them with the Information icon. Since this icon appears on every node,
>  editing is basically impossible. You can turn these icons of in the
>  style editor (last two items uncheck the icon)
>
> - on start up the screen will be covered with a red dot pattern showing
>  the areas where you have NOT downloaded data from the server. This is
>  intentional to raise awareness to the user that there might be data
>  there on the server that is not shown.
>
> Anyone else has suggestions of things that we should mention because it
> could present a surprise?
>
> cu bart
>
> _______________________________________________
> Merkaartor mailing list
> Merkaartor at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/merkaartor
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/merkaartor/attachments/20080801/0d37c6b9/attachment.html>