[Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #3980: RFE: Potlatch/2 feature to ease correct node<->way conversions

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:07 AM, OpenStreetMap <trac at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>  I'll be first in line to submit patches once potlatch/2 is refactored into
>  perl, python, javascript, java, c, 68000 assembly language, or xslt :-).

If you already speak javascript, you'll find ActionScript pretty
trivial to pick up. Download the Adobe Flex IDE (available as
time-limited free version), follow the instructions I put in the wiki,
and away you go. Potlatch 2 was the first time I've ever used
ActionScript (let alone Flex), and the language really posed no
difficulties at all.

Btw, regarding the current "click a POI then shift-click elsewhere"
functionality (which I wasn't aware of), IMHO the shift-click is
overloaded enough without this:
1) Shift-click midway along a selected way: create a new node
2) Shift-click a node on a selected way: start drawing from that node
3) Shift-click in space while on a selected POI: convert POI to area

(But Shift-click in space while on a selected way node: nothing )

They don't gel that well together, imho - wonder how they could be
improved. (A slightly related issue is that it's currently not easy to
create a new way that joins an existing way without selecting the
existing way. Avoiding selecting the existing way is important to
retain what's in the "repeat tags" memory. Maybe a solution would be
to merge 1) and 2): shift-clicking mid-way along any way – selected or
not – would create a new node and start drawing from it.)

Steve