[OSM-newbies] Potlatch & cycleways

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Richard Fairhurst<richard at systemed.net> wrote:

>> Do you think that tomorrow I need to look for a better editor?
>
> Honest reply? Yes, I do. More to the point, I think that, tomorrow or
> today if possible, you need to recognise that we are all volunteers,
> working in our free time, for the love of it. So yes, I'd rather it
> was some other editor author, not me, spending the time to tell you
> that, because then I can get on with something useful.

And from the other side of the fence, thank you for making Potlatch,
and all the hours that you put into squashing bugs, and adding new
features. Others all the time talk about using a "better" or "more
powerful" editor instead of Potlatch. I've tried other editors, and
come back to Potlatch every time.

Potlatch just works, and is so intuitive that I don't even know if
there's a user manual for it.

My GPS uses TeleAtlas as it's map database, and I find myself wishing
that they had an interface like Potlatch which would allow users to
submit requests for changes. Every change that I have submitted to
TeleAtlas has been replied to with "Not enough information provided"
type response. You only have a couple hundred characters to tell them
what the problem is, which can be difficult to convey. Draw a picture,
and it's easily understood.

I'd be hard pressed to come up with requests for improvements to
Potlatch. There's one thing that comes to mind, but that is because of
the way the GeoBase information that we are importing is formatted.

So, once again Richard,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Potlatch is MY editor of choice!

James
VE6SRV