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[Cliff Deamer]

Thanks again Richard that was a big help, particularly the Potlatch
Primer which I had not found before.
Cheers   Cliff

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:18 +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Cliff Deamer wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Richard,
> > My problem is that someone has previously mapped part of the area I am
> > dealing with but has simplified country lanes by making them a series of
> > straight lines. A road which is in fact very winding is now inaccurately
> > presented.
> 
> Ah, that annoys me too!
> 
> > I need to add track points and give the road its true character.
> > I find I cannot add points. I can drag the existing points but that does
> > not do the job.
> 
> In Potlatch (the online, Flash editor) you can add a point by holding  
> shift and clicking at the right point in the way. You can then drag  
> the point. A timesaving tip - you do not need to release the point to  
> drag it: you can hold shift, click on the way, then drag until it's in  
> the right place, and only then release the mouse button.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potlatch/Primer will tell you  
> about this and some of the other keypresses you can use.
> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
> 
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