[OSM-talk] Potlatch 3 for desktop

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 11:27 +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Hi folks and Happy New Year!
> 
> As many of you will be aware, Flash Player is being disabled in web
> browsers. But you don't get to Ban Potlatch(tm) quite yet.
> 
> I'm delighted to announce that Potlatch continues to be available,
> now as a desktop application. You can download it for Mac and
> Windows[1] at
> 
>  https://www.systemed.net/potlatch/
> 
> Potlatch 3 includes OAuth login, support for Remote Control, and
> other features to ease desktop editing. Other new features include
> support for Overpass API queries in the Tasks palette, and there's
> some exciting stuff to come soon… more of that in due course.
> 
> Potlatch is of course open source. You can get the source and report
> issues at https://github.com/systemed/potlatch3 .
> 
> Thank you to the OpenStreetMap Foundation for supporting this work
> and to Potlatch's many users for their edits.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> [1] Running it natively on Linux is unfortunately challenging, but
> investigations so far are promising and hopefully we'll have an easy
> solution in the future. If you have mad Docker skills, maybe you can
> help? (https://github.com/systemed/potlatch3/issues/2)
> 
I have been able to install, run and make edits using P3 under Wine on
Fedora 33 (linux).

Can't add much as to how, it simply worked by selecting Open with Wine
Program Loader. It is now available as an icon on my Gnome Desktop.

Phil (trigpoint)