On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
Patch #4
...
Patch #5
If the user merges two ways which has different tagging and of which
he is not the original editor, ask him Are you sure ?
If he does it again, display a popup with This is your second warning !
And
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
Gert Gremmen wrote:
Sent: 16 December 2008 10:37 AM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.
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
On Tue, December 16, 2008 11:36, Gert Gremmen wrote:
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.
Aaahhh... gratuitous statistics. Got to love those.
In order for me to stick to
Andy, Frederik and Maning have really said all I could ever say.
Except that:
If you really wanted to help - even if you can't or won't code - you would
have submitted some trac tickets with suggestions, as many other people have
done. You would have attempted to understand before condemning.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert Gremmen wrote:
If a tool has serious problems
it needs someone pointing at it.
point out the problems - dont throw away the tool. AFAIK potlatch is the
public face of OSM and
Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
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.
I would'nt say that Potlatch is all bad, 7% of what
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert Gremmen wrote:
If a tool has serious problems
it needs someone pointing at it.
point out the problems - dont throw away the tool.
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert Gremmen wrote:
If a tool has serious problems
it needs someone pointing at it.
point out the problems - dont throw away the tool. AFAIK potlatch is the
public face of OSM and the biggest converter of bystanders into mappers. And
for me it is a blessing
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert Gremmen wrote:
If a tool has serious problems
it needs someone pointing at it.
point out the problems - dont throw away the tool. AFAIK potlatch is the
public face of OSM and
Steven Le Roux wrote:
Why not prefering to consider other solutions ? Why not downloading
josm as a java web start app and give in the link the bbox from the
browser ?
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2008-December/001204.html
is why.
Magically giving JOSM to newbies
[mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens Dave Stubbs
Verzonden: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:40 PM
Aan: Steven Le Roux
CC: talk@openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law
On 16/12/2008 15:58, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Magically giving JOSM to newbies doesn't stop them making mistakes. It just
means they make mistakes with JOSM rather than with Potlatch.
That is indeed true.
However, what makes Potlatch particularly susceptible to people making
mistakes is the
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
Most of POTLATCH problems are clearly caused by:
- not understanding POTLATCH and how it works
- Not understanding OSM at all.
Most of the Potlatch complaints are clearly caused by:
Cheers,
Andy
2008/12/16 Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl
- upload only on request, not after each and every
mouse click
I think this would be an improvement, especially if you could view a list of
changes that would be uploaded prior to upload... Though I'm sure others
would feel the opposite... Most of
...@openstreetmap.org] Namens Richard Fairhurst
Verzonden: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:13 PM
Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Disable Potlatch finally.
D Tucny wrote:
I think this would be an improvement, especially if you could view
a list of changes that would be uploaded prior
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert Gremmen wrote:
If a tool has serious problems
it
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. Wikipedia haven't succumbed to the Disable TextArea
Finally campaign, despite how easy it is to make mistakes when
editing pages. I'm glad I don't have to download a java program in
order to fix typos :-P
Hi Y'all,
I want to plead for disabling Potlatch.
Everyone else has already spoken well regarding potlatch - I would only
add that the attractiveness of OSM as a data source for my project comes
at least partly from having such a _low_ barrier of entry to improving
the data...if a user sees
2008/12/16 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio jldoming...@prodevelop.es:
Hi,
Potlatch is as old as OSM, no?
If it was that bad, the Google-OSM comparison presented some days ago would
not be possible
:-)
Lucas
It isn't as old as OSM, I believe there was a Java applet before it.
When I first
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk
wrote:
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org
wrote:
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 5:33:18 pm Gert
D Tucny wrote:
I think this would be an improvement, especially if you could view
a list of changes that would be uploaded prior to upload...
Yep, see previous message about the only reason that not being an option is
that I haven't worked out a UI for it. :)
One thing though that I don't
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk
wrote:
2008/12/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kenneth
On 16 Dec 2008, at 17:21, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com
wrote:
Absolutely. Wikipedia haven't succumbed to the Disable TextArea
Finally campaign, despite how easy it is to make mistakes when
editing pages. I'm glad I
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. Wikipedia haven't succumbed to the Disable TextArea
Finally campaign, despite how easy it is to make mistakes when
editing pages. I'm glad I don't have to download a java
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
Please excuse the self promotion, but OSM Mapper
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Mapper) does currently allow
one to monitor for changes to ways in a watched area which you can then
monitor using RSS.
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