[OSM-newbies] Potlatch 1.3

James Ewen ve6srv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 17:05:43 GMT 2009


Richard,

Thanks once again for creating and supporting such a great tool for OSM work!

I look forward to seeing the new toys in v2.0.

James

On 11/23/09, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 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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