On Wednesday 01 October 2008 18:32:47 Peter Conrad wrote: > I basically agree with most of your points, especially what you said > about the keyboard shortcuts. I often modify (beautify) existing long > roads by adding new nodes to that road and moving nodes around. > Therefore I have to use Ctrl-N and Ctrl-M frequently and alternating, > which almost gives me the RSI syndrome to my left hand while using the > right hand to push the mouse ;-) > Using keyboard shortcuts without modifiers might become a problem, > though. I noticed that when playing around with a buggy german > translation already having just N for new node and R for new road. > Depending on where your keyboard focus was, strange things were > happening... > This is is hardly ever a problem, though. If one mistypes and modifies something, undo is just a click/keystroke away. If there are focus issues, we should fix those. Of course, I propose only simplifying those shortcuts that are quick and easily undoable. For example, upload and download should be combos (download is slow, upload should be VERY intentionally done).
> I don't see the benefit of shading areas over time. I usually download > and upload most frequently just the area I am about to edit. I never > keep a downloaded area over days, that means I never save my work locally. > Different work patterns :-) I only boot my computer when the power fails (which sadly is quite often...), and wouldn't close merkaartor if it weren't because there is no way to know how old data is. I don't find this feature to be a priority, though, given how fast merkaartor opens, but it would be /nice/. > I'd like to add one thought regarding my workflow when mapping an urban > area: > I usualy have a GPX track also containing custom waypoints besides the > track points. In the field I create these consecutevely numbered > waypoints at street crossings or other way marks and I make a note about > the street names at this point. > When creating a road with Merkaartor I have to find out where the street > starts and where it ends by comparing my field notes with the waypoint > numbers. This waypoint number is its name tag and I can only see it in > the properties dock when selecting that node. Unfortunately I cannot see > that when beeing in create road mode. I always have to leave that mode, > select one of these nodes to find out its number, and start creating a > new road again. It would help a lot if I could somehow see the waypoint > tags when creating a road, e.g. as tooltip or something. I would not > want it for normal track points, just for waypoints/nodes having more > than the location tags. I'm not sure if this could be helpful for normal > selection mode, too - not just when creating a road? I agree that more properties as tooltips would be nice. For example road names are often not displayed until zoomed very far in, which is sometimes a problem, and just hovering over a line and seeing a tooltip show up would be nice. _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
