OpenStreetMap
I very quickly found that Potlatch is rather limited. I'm thinking about adding some bus stops that are currently missing on my route to the centre of town. Not being able to easily import waypoints makes this difficult to do accurately, so I thought I would try JOSM -- and I'm impressed! As a test I added a few benches and a section of power line near my home. I do have a bit of a penchant for pylons, and it might be a nice day out sometime to follow and map a power line, if possible.
Discussion
Comment from Richard on 13 May 2009 at 01:18
You can use waypoints quite easily in Potlatch - just click 'Edit' next to the track in your 'GPS Traces' listing.
Comment from Claudius on 13 May 2009 at 06:01
Thanks, Richard. I was being lazy. I gave up when I was unable to import the waypoints file directly. I then read that Potlatch can use waypoints if you convert them to tracks first -- and I thought I would have to edit the XML manually! A bit more reading and I find out about MWaypoint.exe. This is the page I didn't read before:
osm.wiki/Upload_Waypoints
Comment from Richard on 13 May 2009 at 09:29
Yikes. Fair play to the author of that page for his ingenuity, but that's a really complicated way of doing it. The 'official' way is much easier!
Potlatch itself will read any GPX containing waypoints. The OSM website, however, will reject a GPX if it doesn't contain at least one trackpoint.
So just make sure your waypoints are in the same GPX as your tracklog. Alternatively, copy-and-paste a tiny trackpoint into your waypoint GPX file.
You can then click 'Edit' by the track name, and the waypoints will show up in Potlatch.
Comment from Claudius on 13 May 2009 at 10:12
Thanks. I'll give it a try. I was confused between Potlatch and the actual website uploader which is obviously not the same thing at all.
Comment from RussNelson on 13 May 2009 at 13:33
The biggest problem with Potlatch is that it edits using the API directly. If the API is slow, or your network connection is slow, then Potlatch is slow.