On 11 Feb 2009, at 11:37, Gert Gremmen wrote: > On of the comments: > >> I took a look, and blow me down, my road was missing. So I >> registered, and tried to add it. I failed. A project that's all >> about the people adding the >roads, and I couldn't for the life of >> me work out how to add a road. >> An "Add Road" option, maybe? Oooh nooooo, nothing like that. (I >> managed to move a few other roads around accidentally while trying >> things, but I think >I managed not to save those changes.) >> I won't be going back. > > Here we see how a Newbie meets OSM : a missing "Add Road" option. > I think he is representative for a lot newbies.... > What can we learn from that ???? > > (I suppose he tried Potlatch) > Could a few small help buttons with a label readin (add road) leading > to a basic help page do something for this guy ?? > Or could some macro system help him ? > > >
When you start potlatch there is a welcome screen with the options start, play, and help. Once you are beyond that screen there is only the "help & wiki" link in the left side bar, which doesn't point to any useful help. I have created: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1584 for RichardF. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
