anonymous guy wrote: >Sent: 18 March 2009 1:06 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] display street names in JOSM (and flash) > >On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Anyway, in Potlatch (Flash), ... >> If the existing ways are getting in the way, you can quickly >> dim them by pressing Caps Lock. > >The OSM Mapnik background is nice. Pressing F4 also switches to this >background. > >With thin lines I can make them out, but the existing ways obscure the >street names. > >Pressing capslock does not seem to do anything. Are you sure this is >correct? > >I checked through the wiki and I cannot find a listing of all the >hotkeys, and the pages I looked through didn't seem mention a >foreground-dimmer or a capslock type function.
Potlatch keyboard shortcuts are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts > >It looks like holding space and a left-click-drag will let me offset >the background enough to see what's what, but this is obviously >imperfect. I have a really hard time moving the offset just a tiny >little bit.. maybe my mouse tracking isn't fine enough. > > >> Potlatch 2.0 will show street names on drawn ways, assuming they're >> long enough to fit the name in. > >That will be very cool. > >I wanted to use the Java version, because it looked like I could do >much finer detailed work. I'm interested in working on an area which >has nothing but a city name.. but maybe the flash version will do the >trick. Some swear by one editor, others like myself find its horses for courses. I do bulk editing with JOSM because I find it quicker to work over a small defined area and use Potlatch where I need to make adjustments or corrections to occasional features or where there is a need to reference the Yahoo! imagery. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
