20 Things You Never Knew About Potlatch

Richard Fairhurstwww.geowiki.com

It’s ok to like Potlatch

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Click ‘Edit’ next to yourGPS traces

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Potlatch is the only applicationin the entire world that

uses Caps Lock for somethingother than capital letters (wtf?)

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You can load more than 10,000trackpoints now

(hit that button, baby)

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Warning, this mapper isreverting

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Maximising the window makesediting easier

(also, it boggles the server)

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Use the number keys for tag presets– including your own

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http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/67

(Potlatch does it already)

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Press ‘-’ to remove fromone way only

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Potlatch 1.0Potlatch 1.1

…?

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External launch URL

(we love JOSM really)

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Custom backgrounds(Walking Papers ftw)

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No-name mode

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TIGER highlight mode

aka I Am Not Dave Hansen

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FAKE STEVEC IS NOTWHO YOU THINK HE IS

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Tidy straight roadsand roundabouts

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Shift-click the relation iconto repeat the last set

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Photo-mapping**privacy considerations may apply

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Press L for lat and long

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Just because it’s Flashdoesn’t mean it’s not open source

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Potlatch 2.0

and the

Halcyon rendering engine

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Try Halcyon today

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