[OSM-talk] Flash editor

[Richard Fairhurst]

Hello all,

A brief update, for those who are interested, on how I'm doing with  
the Flash editor (codenamed Potlatch).

Most of the drawing functions are complete. You can draw ways, extend  
existing ways, add nodes into ways, move or delete them.

There is basic key/value editing for both ways and nodes. The base map  
is a 'slippy' Landsat map which can be turned off as required.

Still to do are key/value presets, some UI work, and a few additional  
drawing functions (in particular, joining/splitting ways).

Target platform is Flash Player 6, which means it can both be compiled  
and run with open source tools (ming.sourceforge.net and  
www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ respectively). If you have installed a  
local OSM server, the only dependency will be Ming 0.3 (and a SWF  
player). The code - mostly ActionScript, currently with some bits of  
Perl and PHP that should be eventually migrated to Ruby - will be  
released as public domain.

There is an outline roadmap for future releases, with planned features  
including GPS track import and simplification, and support for the New  
Popular Edition and other base maps.

First release is probably a few weeks off, certainly this calendar  
year. I don't anticipate it will attract anyone from JOSM, but as a  
first step into OSM editing it should hopefully lower the entry barrier.

cheers
Richard