[Potlatch-dev] Some additions to Potlatch 2's map_features.xml

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> If that's something you can do as part of map_features.xml , then feel
> free to experiment. If it needs extra stuff coding to support it then
> tell us what you're looking for (and I'll have no idea how to code it
> and ask Richard instead!).

Cool, well I'll keep poking around as much as possible and only demand
feature changes when I'm confident of what the current limitations are
:)

(Fwiw, in the situation I was describing, it seems perfectly feasible
to group all the railway stuff as a top-level feature, and make the
various sub-types just properties. But I won't go rushing into
changing it.)

>The documentation on getting stuck into coding is pretty scant to -
>while there's technically everything you need to know in the Readme
>that you get from svn, I know lots of people have struggled with
>getting to the point where they can compile the .swf . I think it's
>worth being clear that there's a lot of development you can do without
>getting that far though, in the same way as when I got started I
>clarified that you didn't actually need a full rails_port install to
>go with it!

Surprisingly I actually got compiling to happen relatively easily,
using the README.txt. Strangely the hardest bit was finding a
lightweight webserver for windows (the suggested ruby based server
didn't get me very far...). I'll see what I can do.

Steve