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

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Lunes, 27 de Abril de 2009, exnpo-openstreetmap at yahoo.co.uk escribió:
> As a newbie of two weeks, I hesitate to ask if there's a problem with using
> the keyboard shortcut 'L' key, to display Lat/Long on the map whilst
> editing?

As an old-timer, I advise against using Potlatch (the flash editor you're 
using in the web page) and switch to JOSM. It will *always* display the 
coordinates.

> From local knowledge and from standing by POI's taking the GPS reading,
> 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. I believe my GPS
> receiver is accurate as I visited a web site that helps with Satellite dish
> setting up and the readings agreed.

Is your GPS using the WGS84 coordinate system? That may be a reason for the 
misalignments.

Else, please try out JOSM and compare the coordinates. If they differ, 
congratulations, you've just found a bug in the OSM software :-) Please go to 
talk-dev and yell the Potlatch developers to fix it


Cheers,
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