[OSM-talk] Potlatch :-)

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> >Potlatch surely needs a explicit save button.  I do not know whether
> >such a button exists.
>
> Yes, I have to agree with this.
>
> I have grown to love Potlatch and now use it preference to JOSM for things
> like tracing rivers, but I find it very disconcerting that my edits are
> applied automatically to the live data and that if something 'goes wrong',
> I have to take action to fix it.

I recently tried Potlatch. Being spoilt by JOSM, I had  a hard start ;-) .

Potlatch is a cool editor and builds an important part of our infrastructure. 
Anyway, I'd like to share some thougts:

* I missed a delete button. I have chosen a barely mapped area and had the 
same area open in JOSM to revert stuff I messed. What I missed most was a 
delete button. Meanwhile I know there's ESC and Shift-Delete. I wonder if a 
dedicated delete button was a further option, though

* An undo option is much appreciated. It always happens that one accidentally 
does things wrong, independently which editor gets used

* I'd appreciate a Save button. I felt a bit queasy as I knew that all edits 
went straight into the database. I believe any user is used to the save 
concept

* One further thing I noticed: sometimes it lasts a while until the osm data 
gets loaded, while the sats are already visible. A user might think "Hey the 
trunk road is still missing. I'll create it!". After drawing the polygon, the 
(already existing) way might appear. Now the user may have a problem. In 
short, was it worth considering to present a progress bar while data gets 
loaded? Or to disable the editing tools? Yes I hate progress bars as well...

The project already benefits from Potlatch. If we manage to make it even more 
inviting it would be a good thing.

Just my two cents,

ce