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>   1. Re: missing city (Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas)
>   2. Re: missing city (Ralf Zimmermann)
>   3. Re: missing city (Richard Fairhurst)
>   4. JOSM (Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas)
>   5. Re: Latest JOSM - auto extending way troubles (Kai Stian Olstad)
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> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:16:22 -0300
> From: Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas
> <francismedeiroslistas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] missing city
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> On 13/10/2007, at 17:03, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
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>> Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas wrote:
>>
>>> It does show in Potlach. Point no. 60678823.
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=-15.24&lon=-40.62&zoom=12
>>
>>> But it may be me, because I still haven't managed to work properly on
>>> newer JOSM. And I can't work in Potlach (gee, I don't know even how
>>> to delete a way there).
>>
>> Select the way and hold shift while pressing Delete.
>>
>> When you first open Potlatch, do click the 'Help' link, it'll take
>> you to the help pages where this and much more is explained.
>>
>> cheers
>> Richard
>>
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> It wasn't working under Safari, but it does work under Firefox.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francis
>
>
>> -- 
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> Francis Augusto Medeiros
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:26:00 +0000
> From: Ralf Zimmermann <osm_list at ralfzimmermann.de>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] missing city
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> Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas wrote:
>> On 13/10/2007, at 18:55, Ralf Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>> Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas wrote:
>>>> On 13/10/2007, at 11:53, Ralf Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas wrote:
>>>>>> I've created a node and made it indicate a city.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It now doesn't show on JOSM, but shows in Potlach. Any clue of why
>>>>>> does that happen?
>>>>> At which location is that node? What is the name of the city?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ralf
>>>>> Munich, Germany
>>>>
>>>> Itamb?, in Brazil.
>>> Google Maps tells me that that is at latitude -12.8 and longitude
>>> -40.8,
>>> is that correct? Loading that area with JOSM shows no data at all.
>>>
>>> Have you tried closing Potlatch and re-loading that area with Potlatch
>>> again?
>>> It seems your node is not where you say it should be - or not there at
>>> all. Are you really looking at the same area in the two applications?
>>>
>>> I have only little experience with Potlatch. But I do trust JOSM
>>> when it
>>> says there is no data.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
>> It does show in Potlach. Point no. 60678823. And no, it doesn't show
>> on JOSM.
>>
>> But it may be me, because I still haven't managed to work properly on
>> newer JOSM. And I can't work in Potlach (gee, I don't know even how
>> to delete a way there).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Francis
>
> It seems that I was looking at the wrong coordinates (see above).
> Is that maybe your problem in JOSM as well?
>
> If I load the area that Richard pointed out, JOSM shows your node:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=-15.250065908940906&mlon=-40.62753414271739&zoom=13
> (enter this into the box called "URL from www.openstreetmap.org" in the
> download dialog)
> So I guess it is just a user error.
>
> Next time, it would be helpful to get the correct latitude and longitude
> from you. That speeds up things.
> But there is no harm done. Have fun with OSM!
>
> Ralf
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:33:40 +0100
> From: Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] missing city
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
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> Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas wrote:
>
>> It wasn't working under Safari, but it does work under Firefox.
>
> There's a bug in Safari in which sometimes keypresses aren't passed
> through to Flash applications (like Potlatch). When this happens,
> just click outside of Safari - on the desktop, for example - then
> click back on the Potlatch area, and it should work.
>
> cheers
> Richard (also a Safari user!)
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:38:13 -0300
> From: Francis Augusto Medeiros - Listas
> <francismedeiroslistas at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OSM-newbies] JOSM
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
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> Folks,
>
> when I download the latest JOSM, I don't get those tools I formely
> used to add node and connect, merge ways, etc... Only that JOSM
> downloaded from the API 5 page works, but there I can't download
> anything. Should I wait before working with JOSM again?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francis
>
> -- 
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> Francis Augusto Medeiros
> ICQ:7825595
> Skype: francisaugusto
> AIM/iChat: francisaugusto
> Vit?ria da Conquista - Bahia - Brasil
> "L?mpada para os meus p?s ? a Tua palavra, e luz para o meu caminho"
>          --- Salmo 119:105
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:09:32 +0200
> From: "Kai Stian Olstad" <kai.stian.olstad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Latest JOSM - auto extending way troubles
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> On 10/13/07, Barry Crabtree <barry.crabtree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm struggling to create ways without them extending another way (if that
>> makes sense).
>>
>> I'm using a version 357 of JOSM dated 10th October.
>
> I believe that this has been addressed in revision 375.
> The editing mode is also changed as of 365 and uses 'modeless' editing.
>
> This fix is not yet included in josm-latest, but will be in the next
> compilation.
>
> -- 
> Kai Stian Olstad
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