> ... But, are there any > elements in their user interface that are nice to have (if they work > right)?
I didn't get that far, to be honest. If it helps, the things that I found confusing about Potlatch 6 months or so ago were the same things that have been discussed here before - "where's the "save" button" and "what do those icons without any text next to them on screen do"? That was the point that following the link labelled "help" seemed to be a really good idea... One thing that might be useful would be some sort of "My OSM" or a "saved play mode" feature* - add stuff in a basic editor, but don't commit it to be part of the main map until you're happy that you haven't messed something up. That way someone needn't be scared of accidentally deleting stuff by pressing the wrong button. A combination of finger trouble at my end and slow response from the server once caused me to delete most of the A9 in Scotland once - luckily I found "undo" before anyone fell into the sea, but it could have been embarrassing. I can imagine how something like Google Mapmaker might be useful for tracing stuff from Google "satellite" photos. The OSM equivalent I suppose would be tracing from Yahoo aerial photos, but at least where I live that's only useful for the largest features (woods, mainly). NPE's useful up to a point, but locally colliery closures, railway removals, opencast mining and new industrial estates means that it's just another historical document. So, to a lesser extent, is the local OS Explorer map - that has a few large areas of blank space on it where a former colliery site has been opencasted or land restored. Mind you, it was the fact that OS maps weren't reliable locally that lead me to store stuff as GPS POIs, which turn lead to OSM. *No, I've no idea how to implement this either. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
