[OSM-newbies] Administrative boundaries

[Richard Fairhurst]

James Ewen wrote:

> Potlatch has a little hiccup with these borders... if you go into
> Potlatch, the way ends up being displayed about 50 pixels wide. It
> makes it a little difficult for editing.

Yep - I think it's that if two points are so far apart that they go  
over the edges of Flash's co-ordinate system, wild stuff happens.  
(Though I've not looked into it in any detail.)

> That, and the American border
> import from Tiger data needs some clean up. The US counties seem to
> like to encroach on our sovereign nation! Is there a way to get
> lat/long information for a node in Potlatch?

Mouse-over to the place you want and press 'L'.

cheers
Richard