[OSM-talk] Ideas for Potlatch

[Lauri Hahne]

On 27/02/2008, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Lauri Hahne wrote:
>
>  > There are few quirks currently with Potlatch. I hope somebody could
>  > fix these :D
>
>
> Some good suggestions, thanks!
>
>
>  > 1. The auto complete is great but its behaviour is a bit non-standard.
>  > Currently only enter chooses the currently highlighted item and jumps
>  > to the next box. Usually tab does this too, and it must be dozens of
>  > times I've hit tab and then had to return to complete the tag name.
>
>
> Ha, I'm never sure what to do with this one.
>
>  Tab is standard for people who are used to *nix shells.
>
>  On Windows and OS X, IME, tab jumps from field to field. Enter/Return
>  selects from an auto-complete menu (e.g. Safari, Excel). (The
>  behaviour of tab in auto-complete apps is inconsistent, on OS X at
>  least.) Potlatch is following Windows/OS X behaviour rather than *nix
>  shell behaviour.
>
>  It's important that there's a keypress for "move to next field without
>  auto-complete", so that you can type "high=very" as well as
>  "highway=primary". (I will for the moment ignore those who feel there
>  should be RULES to PREVENT non-standard tags being USED.) As to
>  whether this is Tab or Enter, I'm not greatly fussed, but it seems
>  more logical to me that Enter should stick with its general sense of
>  "accept choice".
>

Tab works in JOSM and Excel.

>
>  > 5. I don't know how easy this would be but I'd like to see Nasa's
>  > Landsat images besides OpenAerial's as Nasa's seem to have better
>  > colours around here.
>
>
> Potlatch will accept any tile source in the standard spherical
>  Mercator ("like-Google"/"900913") projection/tile system used by OSM
>  and a zillion others. I don't know of anyone offering standard-issue
>  NASA Landsat in such a form (and who'd be willing to let us leach
>  their bandwidth), but let me know if you do!
>

I don't know what server JOSM uses for its Landsat though it probably is in UTM.

What about the other ideas?

-- 
Lauri Hahne