Nic wrote (I think - I might have got confused by who is quoting who): > Or change potlatch so that it will not delete or modify > objects last edited by other users. Then it would at > least be easy to delete anything they did.
This couldn't work. I've modified a lot of things which have been added to the project by Potlatch users such as when tracing things from NPE (UK) or other such overlays, when I've actually travelled the route at a later date and GPS traced it. While the overlays are lined up pretty well in Potlatch and slightly less so (in my experience) in JOSM, it doesn't seem to compare with the accuracy of actually travelling a route and tracing it with GPS. An example from a journey I did at a weekend (to buy wet walnuts from a local farm, a trip I do about once a year) - when I uploaded the trace and followed it on the map I was changing (in JOSM) highway=road to a more appropriate type, splitting ways where the names changed, adding new ways that joined to existing ways (adding a node to those existing ways) or so on. If I were one of those experienced users who prefer Potlatch I'd want to be able to do all the same things. Occasionally I also find random nodes in the middle of nowhere that I delete (to be honest I may have added some of those on those few occasions I have used Potlatch when I've been trying to drag the map and messed up). Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
