[OSM-newbies] Potlatch 1.3

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Mon Nov 23 10:53:33 GMT 2009


Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major  
improvement.

Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous  
versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of  
positional accuracy.

This makes Potlatch much more suitable for tracing buildings, and  
other fine detail, from high quality aerial imagery like the NearMap  
imagery available in Australia. Don't forget that there's the option  
to 'Use thin lines at all scales' to make high-resolution work easier,  
too.

A fair amount of the scaling code has been reworked to cope with this,  
so if you spot any mishaps on the way, reports at  
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ are welcome as usual.

This might be the last major revision of Potlatch 1.x - because work  
is now well underway on Potlatch 2, which is a complete rewrite with  
some whizzy new features. But more on that anon!

cheers
Richard





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