I want to plead for disabling Potlatch. Most of the silly edits, things like self crossing roads, star formed roundabouts, forest areas crossing waters and worse are 99% caused by potlatch editors. The slowness of Flash on most computers, leads to mouse lagging and positional errors, wanted or unwanted. The immediate action by updating every change worsens the consequences because things not directly visible (for whatever reason) are left in the database.
If the community wants to keep potlatch, it MUST be changed in - obligatory validation included before upload - upload only on request, not after each and every mouse click - reduced functionality (limited tags; possible based on user experience?) - immediate syntax help available in potlatch side window for each allowed tag, with drawing examples. Most of the errors however, seems to be caused by slow flash leading to difficult cursor positioning. The argument of easy starting is not a valid one anymore as the easy start means also means easy stupidities. The complexity of the current state of the map with it's multitude of tags and rules requires serious thinking about editing, and Potlatch simply allows anyone to do anything to easy. Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens Kenneth Gonsalves Verzonden: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:50 AM Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] live editing and conflict management On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 3:15:35 pm Robert Vollmert wrote: > By the way, has anyone successfully disabled the Potlatch welcome > dialog? ahh - thought it was some glitch in my firefox. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
