[Potlatch-dev] Couple of suggestions/issues

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Joe Hughes <jhughesjr at comcast.net> wrote:
> Couple of update requests/info
> 1 - I couldn't for the life of me turn a road that used to be 1 road into 2
> roads because the road is blocked off now, I got so frustrated tried adding
> points and hitting x in all kinds of ways like 100 times before finally it
> happened somehow.... not sure if there is some issue here or user error but
> it wasn't working well for me at all.

Hi Joe. To split a way, you just click on the node you want to split
it at, and press X. Do you remember what you tried? Were you maybe
drawing a way at the time?

I use this feature quite a lot and I haven't had any issues, but it
could be something to do with the way you were using it.

> 2- When adding permissions and other attributes to roads, in simple layout,
> it adds it, appears to change the tab but doesn't really so you have to
> click off the tab then back to it to continue adding permissions/attributes.

Yeah, that's a known issue.

> 3 - Also once you go through and set like 10 of the permissions you want, it
> would be cool if in advanced mode you could select a whole set of properties
> copy them and then click another road and paste them in.
> It took me almost 30 minutes to do something that if this copy/paste was
> available would have been able to knock out in just a couple of minutes
> which would have allowed me to be more productive and to update more roads.

You can press "R" on a way/node and it will copy all the properties
from the last way/node. Of course that will include the name=* but it
still might save you time.

You can also now select a bunch of ways (hold ctrl to select them) and
set the properties en masse.

Steve