[OSM-talk] Potlatch :-)

[David Earl]

I appreciate Richard's objections to a Save button within Potlatch, not 
least that it changes the whole paradigm of the application.

But... I keep on finding random, often long straight chunks of road 
being added which have no bearing on reality. I think these are people 
playing with it, and don't realise they are changing live data. I 
haven't had anyone do major deletion yet in areas I'm working on, at 
least not that I've spotted, but it would be easy for someone to delete 
a church or a school not realising what they are doing, and for me never 
to notice it.

For example, this 2 segment unconnected residential road in the middle 
of nowhere here:
  http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.239&lon=-0.042&zoom=13&layers=B0T
bears no relation to the real world. I just surveyed this area yesterday 
so I noticed it as I was starting work on the data just now. (If you 
look at this in Mapnik after Wednesday it will have changed; I've 
already deleted the offending way, but not uploaded the new data yet).

It's like people scribbling on the map.

David