Developer(s) Richard Fairhurst Written in ActionScript | Development status Active Platform Adobe Flash | |
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Stable release 2.4 / July 4, 2015 (2015-07-04) Repository github.com/systemed/potlatch2 | ||
Potlatch is a free software editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata using Adobe Flash. It is one of two editors embedded directly within the OpenStreetMap website.
Potlatch 2 requires a web browser with at least version 8 of the Flash plugin installed. It continues to be actively maintained.
History
Potlatch 1 was released mid 2006 and was the default editor on the main OpenStreetMap site until it was replaced by Potlatch 2 in April 2011. The name Potlatch came from the name of newsletter of the Lettrist International art collective.
An alpha version of Potlatch 2, a complete reimplementation of the software, was published in summer 2010. In December 2010, Potlatch 2 was released for general use. After Microsoft had granted OpenStreetMap permission to use aerial imagery from their Bing Maps service for tracing, Potlatch 2 was extended to display these images in the background.
iD (current default editor on main OpenStreetMap website) is in turn a reimplementation of Potlatch 2 architecture in JavaScript.