Reporter: Svenr
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.29am, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

The whole relation editor part looks a bit unordered to me. I've used it a bit and until now have not seen a meaningful sorting order in the drop down list.

Additionally, this list grows quite long if I scroll around the map in potlatch, as it gathers more and more relations that got into view or were close enough to the viewport to be loaded. In dense cities it'll be no surprise if this list fills the whole screen with mostly visually unordered garbage.

I'd suggest some things like this:

• clean up the printed text into a visually ordered table. Columns might work wonders.
• let user decide which relation tag should be used for ordering.
• let user decide which relation tags should be shown at all.
• as the usage of relations grows, consider using a multi-step-selection with the relation type as the first choice, thus splitting the long list of completely mixed puropses (multipolygons, routes, etc.) into shorter ones for a single purpose.