[OSM-newbies] display street names in JOSM (and flash)

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrlists at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 18 09:43:17 GMT 2009


anonymous guy wrote:
>Sent: 18 March 2009 1:06 AM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] display street names in JOSM (and flash)
>
>On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
>wrote:
>> Anyway, in Potlatch (Flash), ...
>> If the existing ways are getting in the way, you can quickly
>> dim them by pressing Caps Lock.
>
>The OSM Mapnik background is nice.  Pressing F4 also switches to this
>background.
>
>With thin lines I can make them out, but the existing ways obscure the
>street names.
>
>Pressing capslock does not seem to do anything.  Are you sure this is
>correct?
>
>I checked through the wiki and I cannot find a listing of all the
>hotkeys, and the pages I looked through didn't seem mention a
>foreground-dimmer or a capslock type function.

Potlatch keyboard shortcuts are here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts


>
>It looks like holding space and a left-click-drag will let me offset
>the background enough to see what's what, but this is obviously
>imperfect.  I have a really hard time moving the offset just a tiny
>little bit.. maybe my mouse tracking isn't fine enough.
>
>
>> Potlatch 2.0 will show street names on drawn ways, assuming they're
>> long enough to fit the name in.
>
>That will be very cool.
>
>I wanted to use the Java version, because it looked like I could do
>much finer detailed work.  I'm interested in working on an area which
>has nothing but a city name.. but maybe the flash version will do the
>trick.

Some swear by one editor, others like myself find its horses for courses. I
do bulk editing with JOSM because I find it quicker to work over a small
defined area and use Potlatch where I need to make adjustments or
corrections to occasional features or where there is a need to reference the
Yahoo! imagery.

Cheers

Andy





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