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Your old London map

Hi Richard. Someone's expressing interest in your old map scanning work: Talk:Out-of-copyright_maps -- Harry Wood 13:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: gathering data

Re: gathering data, you might be interested in http://almien.co.uk/Misc/OSM/ -- Owhite - 13:12, 10 Jan 2006

East Cotswolds

Hi Richard. I've set up a page for the East_Cotswolds, fancy putting on where you've done / might do in future? -- Gagravarr 22:45, 3 Sep 2006 (BST)

Public Domain

I have added the PD-user template to my user page as well, and changed it to automatically set up a category containing all users who have this template on their user page. It's just the two of us right now but we'll get there eventually... --Frederik Ramm 15:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

different size potlatch editors

i do most of my osm mapping on a 23" monitor at 1920 x 1200, and potlatch occupies about a sixth of the screen. i would love to have something that could take advantage of the extra screen space (josm is not an option, work firewall breaks it), are you willing to build different size editors for those with big screens? Myfanwy 21:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Zoom bug in Potlatch

Richard, I can't access my email right now, so I'll use this channel. Something is wrong with the zoom of the Yahoo! imagery in the new version of Potlatch. I hope you can fix it. Otherwise you did a lot of great work. I don't see highway=service among the possible highway tags, but that's a minor nitpick. Polyglot 09:14, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that - memo to self: don't commit stuff just before Christmas. :) It's fixed now. Will look at highway=service when I'm back at my development machine. cheers --Richard 11:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

potlatch presets bug

Hey Richard, good work with potlatch :) As of 0.6c, whenever you use the pre-sets (either by mouse or keyboard), the attributes of the way/node won't update until you click off and then select it again. Perhaps this is related to the change to allow more attributes being displayed? --Brainwad 14:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Oops, yes, I spotted that this morning. Fixed now. Thanks! --Richard 15:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

colon troubles

The problem with colons is back :/ Again I assume it something to do with the change to how many tags you can see. --Brainwad 01:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a regression caused when SteveC moved some of the server code - hopefully he can sort it. --Richard 02:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Potlach 0.8b and waypoints

Hi. I see that 0.8b has reinstated showing waypoints from GPX tracks. It wasn't clear to me whether the problem was with the upload or the editing? I'm still not seeing my waypoints so will try re-loading the track, but can you clarify? Do waypoints need timestamps to show up?

The problem was that, in 0.8a, Potlatch got its start latitude and longitude from the first trackpoint in the GPX track. (This allows GPXs to be edited before they've been processed through the database.) Unfortunately, since waypoints are often in the GPX before the trackpoints, this meant Potlatch was trying to process them before it had a base lat/long, and therefore failing. As of 0.8b, Potlatch processes the waypoints after the trackpoints.
You shouldn't need to reupload, but if you're having problems, let me know the track ID and I'll look into it. --Richard 09:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Well there's a big backlog of uploads at the moment, but as we don't need to wait for the upload before editing now :-) I've had a go and I'm still not seeing the waypoints. The file is RochdaleCanal.gpx and I guess by the URL it has been given an ID of 99934. I waypointed all the locks and bridges I went through last week. Thanks hugely. --POHB 11:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok, thanks - I'll have a look. I notice that the track was produced by Garmin something-or-other - maybe it lays things out differently to GPSbabel (which is what it's tested on). Will get back to you asap (and how could I resist a track of the Rochdale?). :) --Richard 11:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
I saw your message that you'd fixed it - just after I uploaded an edited file where I'd hacked a load of the Garmin guff out and moved the waypoints to the end. That one worked fine. --POHB 12:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

a small thank-you

Potlatch is great. Really, really great. Much better than I dared hope for when I first clicked on the "Edit" tab. Don't need to install anything, plus I can use it on any computer. Best of all, I can demonstrate editing OpenStreetMap on-the-spot to others. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU again! --Emexes 14:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Potlatch translation

Hello,

I would like to help and I could translate the potlatch user interface to German. I am a German native spiker and I am working on internationalisation tasks in my job. Is there a language file? --Lulu-Ann 13:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


Hi again, I have finished the German translation as far as I could.

  • You are using the terms "point" and "node" in the English version.

I have read more "node" in the wiki. Maybe you want to decide to use only one word.

  • The same with "way" and "route" - Or is a route something different when we are talking about relations?
  • There is a sentence where you probably add a variable at the end. I have added %unknown% to the German text to point out where the variable goes.
  • What about the bug report mailing? Do you want "English preferred" or similar added to the other languages' texts?

Bye

  • Do you need an additional text for "choose language"?

--Lulu-Ann 16:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

help with gnash compatibility

Richard,

Potlatch is awesome! Adobe's flash player for Linux however, is very not awesome. Gnash has a long way to go, but at least it doesn't crash Firefox all the time.

But I miss potlatch! So I've started hacking on gnash to get it to support potlatch.

Today I got the AMF encoding/decoding to the point that potlatch loads and displays streets in gnash... after about an hour... still some work to do there. I'm hoping over the next week or two I'll have time to get it to send multiple requests over the same connection and do multitasking properly.

So I'm writing to see how much you'd like to be involved with helping me achieve full compatibility between gnash and potlatch. I'm sure I could do it eventually by myself, but it'd be so much faster and more fun if I could chat with you along the way. If you'd like to be available to me even just for occational questions, please let me know! I've got a contact form at jasonwoof.com/contact.html or you can find me on freenode (nick: JasonWoof). Thanks! -- JasonWoof 02:36, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Adlestrop Rail Atlas

Am I permitted to use this to confirm the station names, and status of lines when tracing older disused/abandoned lines from NPE/Seventh Series(as they become available)? ShakespeareFan00 10:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


translation to Brazilian Portuguese of Potlatch Messages

Hello Richard, my colleague Alan Tamer Vasques was so kind to provide a Brazilian Portuguese translation of the Potlatch messages. We put it in Pt-br:Potlatch/Translation because there is already an incomplete Portuguese translation page featuring apparently Portuguese of Portugal. We hope that the translations will be useful. Thanks for providing Potlatch! --Ulf Mehlig 21:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Praise

Big thanks for the quick fixing of the relation adding bug within v0.10.
Additionally, I'd like to say the enhancement of the history dialog in v0.10b is a _very_ helpful feature saving a lot of mouse clicks. Great job! --HeikoE 08:33, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

change in xml causes mkgmap to bomb

The xml returned by wget'ing the osm from http://www.informationfreeway.org seems to have changed. There are single quotes surrounding the parms. There used to be double quotes. The osmcut java requires double quotes, so it bombs out with an invalid index error on line 144 of the Java source code. Here's how it used to be: 

  <node id="26856937" timestamp="2008-07-24T10:35:24Z" lat="32.7953416" lon="-79.9385824">
    <tag k="created_by" v="YahooApplet 1.0"/>

Here's how it is now:

<node id='29561771' lat='34.7825807' lon='-82.4543862' user='sadam' osmxapi:users='sadam' timestamp='2007-05-24T20:06:35Z'>
</node>

I can think of 3 ways to fix this,

  • get informationfreeway.org to change back
  • change preprocess.pl so it creates double quote parms
  • change osmcut to deal with either single of double

Or am I missing something obvious?

preprocess.pl is really only designed to cope with the XML from planet dumps; it doesn't make any attempt to parse it properly. I guess it would be possible to add an option to use a real XML library, rather than regexes, but that's not really my area of expertise I'm afraid - I loathe XML! Is there a particular reason you'd like to use an Information Freeway download rather than a planet file? --Richard 12:56, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Richard, I was using Information Freeway mainly from newbie ignorance and because I live at the intersection of 3 states in the United States and wanted a portion of each state. But I have no problem going with CloudMade or one of the other Planet extracts. Thanks Art (CyclingGreen)

lat/long resolution in Potlatch

Hi Richard, I just want to ask what is the resolution you are using for the latitude and longitude in Potlatch. According to Data Primitives, the latitude and longitude are stored to 7 decimal places, which translates to about 1 cm at the equator (if I computed correctly). But in Potlatch, I can't position nodes to that level of accuracy. I only get a resolution of around 5 meters or so. Thanks! --Seav 08:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Potlatch itself doesn't have any explicit limit on resolution: the limit is likely to be that of Flash's precision at the scale at which Potlatch works, and certainly that will be less precise than that available in the database. I've just experimented and I think I can get two nodes (within Oxfordshire, England) to within 0.00059km of each other - i.e. 59cm - though my calculations might be wrong. There is of course a minimum 'snap to pixel' so you may need to move a node a way away, then back, to get this level of precision. --Richard 09:17, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, when I'm in the maximum zoom in Potlatch, the nodes seem to snap to a grid having a 3-pixel spacing. Is this the "snap to pixel" thing you are talking about? --Seav 09:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Yes, because Potlatch's "native" co-ordinates are calculated at zoom level 13; the co-ordinate system stays constant if you're zooming in or out, but the Flash movieclip for the map is enlarged/reduced accordingly. So I suspect when you get to zoom level 19, Flash is no longer able to discern a sub-3px difference due to the enlargement factor currently in operation; after all, you're effectively moving a tiny fraction of a zoom-13 pixel. --Richard 15:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
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