----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Maloney" <[email protected]>
To: "James Ewen" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] updating OSM?
James Ewen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm going to add detail to Lake Skemonto... have a look and see. Your
homework will be to make a new lake... go north east a bit, and add in
Little Long Pond. I'll be watching to see how you do! 8)
Oops, that one's already in there... How about a real easy one? Spring
Pond?
James
Well, I tried and am totally frustrated with the POTLATCH editor. I picked
Turkey Lake. I zoomed in to get more detail. The lake did not fit
totally on the screen. I then started to plot the lake presuming I could
pan the image to continue. I had a lot of problems panning. When I was
able to pan, all the points that I had generated disappeared and turned
into a blue line. I then exited and started over. I must have done this a
dozen times before giving up.
I then tried Lake Nawahunta which was small enough to fit on the screen
when I zoomed in. I had simlar problems. Halfway around the lake, I would
do something and all the points that I created turned into a blue line. I
then would exit and start over and it would happen again.
I have read the primer and watched the video tutorial on the editor to no
avail.
Bob
Firstly may I say how sorry I am to hear you are having problems, it must be
extremely frustrating that your first efforts to use OpenSteetMap have been
so disappointing.
Although its not much help, I would say that the particular problems you are
experiencing do seem very unusual.
Panning should be a relatively simple process:
1) either user the arrow keys or your keyboard; or
2) simply left click the mouse button and hold it down, and then simply
drag the mouse in the direction you want to go.
However at times of high load on OSM servers / Yahoo servers / or general
internet, it is possible that the data could not be served back to you quick
enough, which gave the impression that nothing was happening.
You say you "zoomed in to get more detail" - this is good. But I wonder
did you zoom in far enough? At lower zoom levels more data has to be
downloaded from the OSM servers, which could again cause delays. Although
it increases the amount of panning necessary I would suggest you zoom in to
level 16 or 17, (to see you zoom level while editing , hover the mouse over
the edit tab, and look at the status bar of your browser, it will have a URL
ending with zoom=??
I'm very confused about the comment "all the points that I had generated
disappeared and turned into a blue line" - I don't suppose you could
accidentally have hit the "1" [number one] key, which would have activated
the preset for highway=motorway which shows as a blue line?.
Perhaps you could tell us what browser you are using, what version of flash,
and what operating system.
Regards
David Groom
Bob m
PS : I did not do sSring Pond because I don't know where it is. I know
Nawahunta and Turkey Lake. There are probably about a half dozen lakes
which I would like to get into the map. For now though, I am taking the
night off.
PPS: how does the information get from OSM to OSM Cycle? I am really more
interested in the OSM Cycle maps.
PPPS: I am sending this note to both you and [email protected].
Hopefully, it works and in the future I will only replt to newbies.
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