Hello everyone, I was wondering when is it that Potlatch will be considered officially deprecated (so, taken out of the main website). I know that the editor has its pros (Flash is sometimes faster than iD's JavaScript, and some users certainly prefer Potlatch's menu organization), and I definitely appreciate the role it has played in OSM previously, but some of its cons make map maintenance an unnecessary pain. My main issue is lack of proper support to relations (not displayed and handled improperly on basic operations, such as when merging and spliting way members, and not going to be fixed AFAIK). Six months ago when I first posted the problem below, I was seeing problematic changesets in my city every now and then, but now, as the Brazilian community has grown quite a lot, I'm hearing of similar problems popping up in many other cities.
Let me show you the case of these 4 turn restriction relations: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20391254 They have been deleted by this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3490365 The user didn't know he was destroying data because Potlatch neither displays turn restrictions nor issues a warning when merging ways referenced by relations. It's been like this since I've joined OSM over 15 months ago, and I've seen this happening and had to fix them all manually many times. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: OpenStreetMap <t...@noreply.openstreetmap.org> Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:31 AM Subject: Re: [OpenStreetMap] #4902: Warnings for deleting/merging relation members To: fernando.treb...@gmail.com, potlatch-...@openstreetmap.org #4902: Warnings for deleting/merging relation members ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: fernando.trebien@... | Owner: potlatch-dev@... Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: potlatch2 | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Comment (by Richard): Potlatch will not be the default editor for much longer (iD will be) so purely beginner-focused feature requests are largely out of scope now. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4902#comment:1> OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/> OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
