[OSM-talk] patlatch experience / feature requests

[Florian Loitsch]

hi,
I just finished my first potlatch session (not just some random tries, but 
4hours+ of potlatch).
Here some comments:
- I once splitted a way, and when I tried to move the next node the whole way 
was duplicated (which I fixed in JOSM). Didn't retry though.
- Is there a way to disable the yellow rectangle when moving nodes? I spent 
some time rectifying existing ways, and most nodes only needed small 
adjustements. I think it was finally more difficult to adjust the existing 
way, than to recreate it. (maybe next time).
- it's currently nearly impossible to do nice roundabouts. The yellow 
rectangles make small movements impossible, and it's not possible to zoom in. 
At a certain level the Yahoo-imagery isn't available and instead of zoomed 
images the background becomes white. The nodes themselves are zoomed however 
(which makes for instance selecting them separately quite difficult).
- The 'escape' button to abort current modifications is not bad. But it should 
ask, once a certain number of nodes are going to be deleted. Lost about 50 
nodes on a bad "escape"... :(
- I didn't find a way to delete segments. (After some time I finally used 
JOSM).
- Is there a way to make potlatch reload its data? Some manipulations are 
easier in JOSM, and I would like potlatch to see the uploaded modifications.
- It would be nice to see the nodes on existing ways. Parallel ways should 
have the same number of nodes (at approximately the same distances), and this 
is currently not possible. When creating new ways one can just move over the 
other way to see the nodes, but when adjusting existing ways this is not 
possible.

Creating new ways is however a real pleasure (except for the roundabouts).
// florian