Potlatch 1/Changelog

• 8 April 2010: v1.4: New command, 'D' to dim foreground without using Caps Lock.
• 7 February 2010: v1.3e: Experimental tagfinder; added Scottish Popular Edition background layer.
• 16 January 2010: v1.3d: Improved Haiti crisis support, see the commit for the full changelog
• 14 January 2010: v1.3c: Improved Haiti crisis support: Added GeoEye imagery to presets
• 2 December 2009: v1.3b. Fix up i18n issues introduced in v1.3a
• 28 November 2009: v1.3a. Prompt before downloading large areas; warning on entering live mode for the first time; identi.ca support; various fixes.
• 23 November 2009: v1.3. Zoom level up to 23; various fixes.
• 19 November 2009: v1.2f. Change shift-click for merging ways to control/command-click; Inspector shows how many times a node is in this way; add NearMap support.
• 9 November 2009: v1.2e. Twitter support; make locked ways more visible; better relation naming.
• 3 November 2009: v1.2d. Space-cursors to shift background by small amounts; be smarter about 1hr changeset limit; 'W' to select way; Shift-` to cycle backwards through presets.
• 1 October 2009: v1.2c. Show save/live in created_by; load more than 10,000 GPS points if clicked repeatedly; more ooc background layers; various fixes.
• 17 September 2009: v1.2b. Undo fixes; prompt for uid/password if not logged in.
• September 2009: v1.2a. Upload fixes; refresh colouring; rescale textfields for long i18n strings; warn if straightening bendy way; various fixes.
• 4 August 2009: v1.2. Render one-way; inspector; Advanced menu; scale; upload in batches of 5 items; learn auto-complete; various fixes.
• 16 July 2009: v1.1a. Work around infamous Linux Flash Player UTF-8 bug; resize photo windows; various fixes.
• 9 July 2009: v1.1. Photo-mapping; POI icons and drag-and-drop; tidy into straight lines/roundabouts; various fixes.
• 21 May 2009: v1.0. \o/
• 5 May 2009: v0.11b. Floating names on ways/POIs; improved error handling; external launch; various bugfixes.
• 30 April 2009: v0.11a. Keep track of deleted nodes in Potlatch, rather than on the server.
• Spring 2009: v0.11. API 0.6 compatibility; greatly improved speed on redraw in areas with relations; JavaScript communication for WinIE; better error messages; miscellaneous fixes.
• 13 March 2009: Remove way from memory instantly on delete; rework background selection UI.
• 21 January 2009: More presets; NPE at more zoom levels; small fixes.
• 30 October 2008: v0.10f. Parallel path function; show whether data being saved; gradual redraw on zoom in/out; option for noname-style casing.
• 13 October 2008; v0.10e. Split amf_controller into /read and /write; various bugfixes.
• 5 October 2008: v0.10d. Ability to undo reverts; fix pt-BR localisation; don't send created_by tags on nodes (amf_controller); fix clockwise detection; various bugfixes and performance improvements.
• 19 September 2008: v0.10c. Rewire node/way associations to fix duplicate-node bug; indicate locked POIs; lock POIs/ways on demand; performance improvements; further changes to Node object; thicker bridge casing; maximise/minimise SWF; new non-modal alerts; 'S' to assign source tag; various bugfixes.
• 31 July 2008: v0.10b. Node history, link to data browser, and direct mail link.
• 29 July 2008: v0.10a. Improved relations dialogue and search.
• 10 July 2008: v0.10. Indicate tagged nodes in ways; localisation; improve prompts at top right with semi-transparent background and 'loading' animation; call with 'way' or 'node' in query string; amf_controller moved to Rails and projection moved to SWF; major internal changes (new Node object); lots of bugfixes.
• 29 May 2008: v0.9c. Direction of circular ways; lots of small fixes and enhancements.
• 25 May 2008: v0.9b. Improve custom pointer performance; rewrite dialogue code to give back keyboard.
• 11 May 2008: v0.9a. Don't be quite so eager to drag ways; splash screen; small fixes.
• 8 May 2008: v0.9. Undo; drag ways; translucent ways on Caps Lock (so you can see the background).
• 1 May 2008: v0.8c. Automatically create intersections when inserting points; large anchor points and ways at higher zooms; fix triple/double-click; better click/drag detection.
• 22 April 2008: v0.8b. More fixes: update/repaint properly on tag changes; refinements to GPX import (do more than one track at once with comma-separated list, reinstate waypoints, shift-click for finer Douglas-Peucker); warn if deleting way with tagged nodes; add OpenTopoMap; preset changes; don't forbid unlocking large undeleted ways.
• 30 March 2008: v0.8a. Numerous bugfixes, including the 'repeat' bug that's been there since the start; refuse control characters in textfields; edit GPXs before insertion into the db.
• 19 March 2008: v0.8. Relations support (very many thanks to Randomjunk); most tag-editing code rewritten; don't break background tiles on 404; add NPE as source (though tiles not ready yet).
• 15 February 2008: v0.7b. Fix background preference bug; hide Yahoo when no imagery available; allow Space to drag a small distance.
• 11 February 2008: v0.7a. Background tiles.
• 1 February 2008: v0.7. Resizable window; accept compressed GPXs (thanks to TomH); compatibility fixes for SteveC's changes to amf_controller.
• 17 January 2008: v0.6c. Support more than 12 tags; don't load Yahoo on startup if layer is disabled; performance improvement for line-drawing; don't add new versions of nodes unnecessarily; alert on leaving page with unsaved changes; fix way-splitting bug as documented on trac.
• 15 January 2008: v0.6b. Cycle through ways which share nodes.
• 4 January 2008: v0.6a. Read waypoints from GPX files; various bugfixes.
• 23 December 2007: v0.6. Autocomplete keys/values; various bugfixes.
• 20 November 2007: v0.5d. Drag Yahoo layer only by holding Space while dragging.
• 20 November 2007: v0.5c. Style improvements.
• 19 November 2007: v0.5b. Filled areas and line casing.
• 13 November 2007: v0.5a. API->SWF error reporting; way merging 'inheritance' improved.
• 10 November 2007: v0.5. Undelete and revert.
• 2 November 2007: v0.4c. Bugfixes including more work on whichways/putway race; start of work on history (generally not visible as yet).
• 28 October 2007: v0.4b. Click on POIs to add to way; correct created_by signature for ways; attempt to avoid GPS mess when timestamps are the same; update view/edit tabs when panning around; persistent preferences (across sessions).
• 9 October 2007: v0.4a. Further work to fix whichways/putway race.
• 7 October 2007: v0.4. API 0.5 compatibility; reverse direction tool; 'backspace' with Delete; merge ways by shift-clicking; click behaviour improved; fewer requests to Yahoo on drag; workaround for ':' in keys; don't falsely create POIs on whichways/putway race; avoid unnecessary uploads (merge ways/move node); remove unwayed segments and force upload code; lots of bugfixes.
• 14 September 2007: v0.3. Convert GPX tracks to ways; sandbox mode; welcome buttons.
• 12 September 2007: v0.2a. Start of experimental GPX import, tab ordering fixed, disappearing elastic line fixed.
• 2 September 2007: v0.2. POI support, substantial rewrite of click handling, upgraded to Yahoo API 3.5. Various bugfixes.
• 4 August 2007: circular ways don't insert an extra point; new natural presets
• 21 July 2007: points can be inserted (shift-click) and moved (dragged) at the same time; experimental 'make ways out of unwayed segments' support
• 19 July 2007: don't ask the server for whichways if we're within a previously downloaded area; fix textformat when way renumbered; position nodes correctly when joining
• 13 July 2007: don't upload control characters.
• 7 July 2007: merge now works correctly
• 24 June 2007: trap attempted uploads of 0/1-length ways; SQL in putway/deleteway more efficient (and better behaved wrt current_nodes and current_segment tables); flash warning symbol and offer tooltip; only show unwayed segments where visible=1
• 10 June 2007: go to the correct lat/long on startup
• 8 June 2007: show warning when server not responding, and offer opportunity to reupload
• 6 June 2007: support non-ASCII characters in keys/values; pref to disable custom pointers; GPS bug fixes; direction of way indicated; some other stuff that might have been mentioned once or twice ;)
• 21 May 2007: don't delete any nodes used by other segments; better click vs drag handling; don't upload a way again if there's already an upload pending
• throughout May 2007: various bugfixes
• 6/8 May 2007: lots of work to make it run under Rails
• 25 April 2007: context-sensitive mouse pointers; icons dimmed when appropriate; various bugfixes.
• 20 March 2007: new options dialogue (as yet, solely for the background menu); various bugfixes.
• 16 March 2007: thinner lines at high zoom levels; editor behaves better when no valid usertoken supplied; SWF8 player now required; code made more efficient in several areas.
• 15 March 2007: various bugfixes.
• 11 March 2007 (two releases): icon tooltips (open after 1s delay); 'delete' now does the same as 'backspace'; ';' used instead of '|' for merging attributes; when you click a point, explanatory text also appears to say you should shift-click to start a new (branching) way.
• 8 March 2007: escaping now uses ;;; and ===; fixed an x86 byte-order issue; better handling of way deletion.
• 1 March 2007: rubyamf.cgi updated for much saner (and, hopefully, faster) SQL, with subqueries replaced by a single temporary table. Semi-colons are now escaped in node tags.