[OSM-talk] Potlatch v0.4

[Richard Fairhurst]

Hello all,

To accompany the move to the new API, there's also a new Potlatch  
(version 0.4). Of course, Potlatch has always been based around  
segment-free editing, so this has been a fairly happy transition. But  
there are plenty of changes, and here are the main ones:

- Works with the new database!
- You can now merge two adjacent ways (i.e. ones which share an end- 
point) by clicking one, then shift-clicking the other.
- You can reverse the order of a way by clicking the arrow icon.
- When drawing a way (i.e. elastic band), pressing Delete will act as  
"backspace" - i.e. remove the point you added last.
- The age-old problem of : in keys has been kludged, for now. They  
appear as | (bar), and you can edit them as long as you too type |  
instead of :.
- Lots and lots of bugfixes, efficiency improvements, etc.

Potlatch doesn't yet let you create relations. However, it's fairly  
well behaved in that, if you delete a way or node, Potlatch will  
remove it from any relations of which it's a member.

As usual, if (when) you find bugs, either e-mail details to me, or  
use trac, or edit Potlatch/Bugs on the wiki. Feel free to repost this  
to national lists for those who don't read talk. :)

cheers
Richard