[OSM-talk] Simple editing (was: Announcing name searches for OSM)

[Nick Whitelegg]

>It would also be very handy if people could insert new nodes for places. 
You click on the point, select the >type of node from a categorised list, 
enter the name, web site and other relevant info, and submit. I can see a 
>lot of people being happy to add things like post boxes, night clubs, 
ATMs, post codes (like the NPE site) etc. >but being a bit put off by 
Potlach (lovely as it is). Rather than having to search for the exact item 
(as you >suggest) it would also mean you could browse the map, select 
existing items and edit their tags.

As it happens I've already written something which basically does this 
(expect a posting this evening UK time). Having said that it may then be 
superceded by the addition of this functionality to Potlatch.

Nick