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

[Stephen Gower]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:44:59PM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps I'm not as much of an old-timer as you, but I wouldn't give a
blanket advice against Potlatch, and certainly not in favour of JOSM, which
is a usability nightmare - I only delve into it as a last resort, so haven't
made my way up the learning curve recently, even though I used to use it for
all my edits.  Potlatch does most of what I want to do, and does it in the
way I expect, give or take a few crazy keystrokes.

As others have said, the problem with the Latitude/Longitude is probably
down to the particular data in OSM for that area, which is going to be a
problem whatever editor is used.

s