[OSM-newbies] Lat/Long of Current Mouse Position

[Someoneelse]

exnpo-openstreetmap at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> when I use the 'L' key to navigate the cursor over my reading, the 
> result in some cases is way off, sometimes by 25 metres or so. 

it could be the latter - some roads (and other features) have been 
traced from sources such as the old NPE out-of-copyright map.  Depending 
on how well aligned this was or how well the tracing was done you might 
see errors of that sort of magnitude on roads.  If you press "g" in 
Potlatch (to show everyone's GPS traces) do they align with where the 
road is drawn or 25m away where you think the road is?  Also, different 
(older) GPS receivers may not be as accurate as current ones and may not 
be as good at dealing with tree cover etc.

I've just checked what "L" displays in Potlatch for a point that I 
recorded yesterday, and it matches what I thought that it was.  There 
are quite a few other GPS traces in the area and they agree (in one 
dimension obviously) that the feature is within 5m of where I thought 
that it was.

Would it be possible to post a Permalink to the area concerned so that 
we can have a look to see if the existing data there looks iffy?