[OSM-talk] Re verting Changes....

[Russ Nelson]

I suggested a straightforward change to make the fact of live editing  
more obvious a few months ago.  Flash is great, because if somebody  
points out a problem and a fix to you, you can fix it and it's  
immediately available to everyone.

It's WAY too easy for a newbie (and I was once) to try to scroll in  
Potlatch like they scroll in OpenLayers, munge a way or a node by  
moving it inappropriately.  Then they panic, are unable to find the  
Undo or don't know about the Undo, or are just so scared that they  
immediately close the Window (so they don't accidentally save their  
changes).

Richard, I know that you don't have infinite resources to devote to  
Potlatch.  But if you can't fix usability problems, then maybe the  
EDIT tab should go to a Webstart JOSM page?  I'm not suggesting that  
we ban potlatch; just give you some breathing room to fix it.

On May 18, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

>
> David Earl wrote:
>> It looks to me like yet again someone hasn't realised changes made
>> in Potlatch are live. There was also someone complaining about this
>> on the diary pages recently.
>
> Have patience. ;)
>
> (I presume as the author of Namefinder you're quite good at being  
> patient
> anyway. *runs away very fast*)
>
> cheers
> Richard
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