[OSM-talk] Potlatch, dual carriageways, and a broken changeset

[Richard Fairhurst]

Michal Migurski wrote:
> I did notice that Potlatch had them rendered in red this whole time  
> but I wasn't sure what that meant. Help!

Potlatch has the concept of a "locked" way - that's one that won't be  
uploaded. It renders in red and has a little padlock by the way ID.

You can unlock it by clicking the padlock (or pressing K in true  
Potlatch obscure keypress fashion).

This first appeared with the GPX-to-way function way back when - the  
idea being that if you've automatically imported a load of random  
squiggles from your GPS track, they shouldn't be expressly uploaded  
unless you tell them to. (Back then Potlatch only had live editing, so  
it was quite crucial not to upload them immediately.) The "parallel  
way" feature creates locked ways for the same reason - ways created  
automatically shouldn't be uploaded without conscious user choice.

I'm very open to ideas on how to improve the UI to fix any confusion  
here. Should Potlatch (in save mode) alert the user "You have 5 locked  
ways, with names Frog Street | Acacia Avenue | etc. - are you sure?"?  
Bright ideas welcome.

cheers
Richard