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Potlatch v0.4

Posted by Richard on 7 October 2007 in English.

To accompany the move to the new API, there's also a new Potlatch (version 0.4). Of course, Potlatch has always been based around segment-free editing, so this has been a fairly happy transition. But there are plenty of changes, and here are the main ones:


  • Works with the new database!
  • You can now merge two adjacent ways (i.e. ones which share an end-point) by clicking one, then shift-clicking the other.
  • You can reverse the order of a way by clicking the arrow icon.
  • When drawing a way (i.e. elastic band), pressing Delete will act as "backspace" - i.e. remove the point you added last.
  • The age-old problem of : in keys has been kludged, for now. They appear as | (bar), and you can edit them as long as you too type | instead of :.
  • Lots and lots of bugfixes, efficiency improvements, etc.

Potlatch doesn't yet let you create relations. However, it's fairly well behaved in that, if you delete a way or node, Potlatch will remove it from any relations of which it's a member. As usual, if (when) you find bugs, either e-mail details to me, or use trac, or edit Potlatch/Bugs on the wiki.

nothing to bitch about

Posted by jcomeau_ictx on 7 October 2007 in English.

i know, most of my "diary" posts have been grouching about something or another, but i'm finally seeing good results in my local area. thanks to everyone at OSM for a great job. using the 'search' box for 'pubs near columbus' actually brings up only the two i mapped, including my shebeen! and there are umpteen other towns in the US named Columbus, including a rather large city in Ohio, but i guess nobody has mapped them yet...

Location: Luna County, New Mexico, United States

Wonder where this goes?

Posted by Richard on 6 October 2007 in English.

...was what I thought seeing the NCN 57 sign outside Blackwells in Oxford (aren't I good? I went past Blackwells and didn't buy anything).

It goes to Chesham - to be precise, Chesham Underground station. Along the way there are some smashing traffic-free sections (such as the 'Phoenix Trail' railway track from Thame to Princes Risborough), some very tempting pubs, and as usual, some infeasibly steep hills. The one out of Great Missenden is one of only two on the NCN where I've had to get off and push - the other being the awesome climb out of Aberllefenni on Lon Las Cymru.

Along the way, there were two bent-round direction signs to right, and only one or two other places where the signage wasn't clear (mostly in Oxford, to be honest), which is quite good by usual NCN standards.

Obviously, having got to Chesham, I had to get back somehow: and (hoorah) it's Saturday, which means Rail Replacement Bus fun. So I cycled back (not on the NCN this time) to Haddenham, caught a train to Bicester, and then managed another five miles or so before dying and phoning Anna for a lift home.

Total 62 miles of tracks, which I might even map once the API wakes up.

Incidentally, Thame is rubbish for a lunch break. The fabulous butcher selling fabulous-looking steak, ale and Stilton pies won't heat them up; and the seemingly innocent Coronation chicken sandwich from the little bakery is now wreaking peculiar forms of vengeance on my digestive system.

Whaley Bridge and Buxworth

Posted by davidearl on 6 October 2007 in English.

Completed the town of Whaley Bridge (east of Stockport) last weekend, after being rained off heavily on two previous vists. More extensive than I thought and hard work on a bike, as it is on the edge of a steep hill.

The canal basin at Buxworth is interesting: where the transshipment used to happen between the tramway (now a cycleway) leading up to the stone quarries up in the hills and the Peak Forest Canal.

BSGPSPDA

Posted by Steve Clark on 4 October 2007 in English.

I've been helping the author with testing and suggesting improvements. He has been very helpful. It's gradually evolving into what I had wanted for an OSM mapping tool. It can use OSM tiles so you can see what is already mapped.

I have some issues with my position lagging behind my actual location. This may be due to my old Acer n35 being a bit slow, but he's looking at improving performance. I can run Tomtom and other GPS apps, so it should be possible.

My latest request is for more control over the rate of logging. I think that it should be dynamic, taking distance covered and change in heading into account. He's working on that too.

There's a page on the wiki for the application with a wish list.

River Dijle/Dyle

Posted by Polyglot on 3 October 2007 in English.

I'm amusing myself a bit by tracing the river that flows through my home town. I just did a stretch of 20km from the nearest city upstream and now I'm getting ready to do the same 20km downstream, where it merges with another river.

Is it OK to do this by using the photographic material from Yahoo? I don't see anybody who is going to use a kayak to trace the flow of a river like this, risking an expensive GPS unit.

Polyglot

Die folgenden Dinge vermisse ich in Openstreetmap

Posted by mrieser on 3 October 2007 in English.

- Changehistory, Es wäre schön, wenn es wie bei wikipedia eine Versionsgeschichte gäbe in der man sehen kann, welche Person wann welche Änderung gemacht hat.

- Ein Tool, welches die Straßentypen und andere Tags länderspezifisch einschränkt.
- Map Tool mit konfortablen Tag eingabe/korrektur
- Map Tool, welches die Grafik entsprächend den gestzten Tageigenschaften darstellt.

Die folgenden Dinge vermisse ich in Openstreetmap

Posted by mrieser on 3 October 2007 in English.

- Changehistory, Es wäre schön, wenn es wie bei wikipedia eine Versionsgeschichte gäbe in der man sehen kann, wer wann welche Änderung gemacht hat.

- Ein Tool, welches die Straßentypen und andere Tags länderspezifisch einschränkt.
- Map Tool mit konfortablen Tag eingabe/korrektur
- Map Tool, welches die Grafik entsprächend den gestzten Tageigenschaften darstellt.