[OSM-talk] "Potlatch really hacks me off because..."

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
| I found Steve's excellent tutorial video on Potlatch really
| interesting - not so much because I don't know how to use Potlatch ;)
| , but more from a UI feedback point of view.
|
| For example, Steve was having difficulty remembering when/how you
| should double-click, and when you should single-click, to complete a
| way. Funnily enough Anna (Mrs F) was using Potlatch the other week and
| I noticed her having exactly the same difficulty. But Potlatch has
| been around for some nine months now and I don't ever recall it being
| brought up.
|
| So now's your chance.
|
| What little things like that annoy you, or took you a while to get
used to?

Show GPS tracks doesn't have a corresponding hide GPS tracks option (or
I couldn't find it last time I tried).

Space-drag the background is really not obvious - it's a completely
secret, yet totally essential feature. Of course, it would be nice if it
could save the results of the drags, perhaps by putting a node at the
centre of the map with a tag indicating the co-ordinates of the same
position in the Yahoo map.

Really the procedure of editing should be:
* Show GPS tracks and existing ways semi-transparently.
* Align imagery
* (optionally) hide GPS tracks
* Then start editing

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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