[OSM-talk] Does potlatch make it too easy for peopleto unintentionally screw things up?

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fairhurst" <richard at systemeD.net>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Does potlatch make it too easy for peopleto 
unintentionally screw things up?

[snipped for brevity]

> [several replies lumped together into one]
>
>> And as
>> stated, there's a "play" mode now so accidents shouldn't happen so
>> often. Richard - what happens if you don't select play or start and
>> just start using potlatch?
>
> At present it assumes "start live editing" - in other words, practice
> mode is only engaged if you click "play". I could probably change this
> if it were deemed a good idea, though.
>

I think that the practice mode would be a good default.

It would also be nice if it were possible to switch from practice to live, 
and back again whenever you wanted to.

David



> cheers
> Richard
>