[OSM-newbies] Joining two pieces of a way

[Isaac Wingfield]

>
>> I have determined by inspection that the unnamed road here (Potlatch
>> in edit mode highlights it):
>>
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.265624&lon=-121.91252&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
>>
>> is an extension of Manda Drive, which is already a named way, and
>> which shares an endpoint with the unnamed part. It seems that the
>> proper thing to do is simply join the unnamed part to the named part,
>> but I cannot figure out how to do that. The Potlatch "cheat sheet"
>> says something about "Join/Merge to another line (if they share an  
>> end
>> point)" by Shift/click, but nothing particularly useful happens  
>> when I
>> do that.
>>
>>
> Try ctrl+clicking. Also, it doesn't matter all that much if they're  
> "one
> way", as long as they're both named correctly.

It seemed to me that the Tiger/Line data which i associated with one  
part should be associated with the rest, too.

> You can just make two ways that connect.


OK. I select the part with all the Tiger/Line data, and then ctrl 
+click on the part I want to join to it. That brings up a dialog about  
"Settings..." and "About Adobe Flash Player 10..."

Poking a bit more, I found that the correct combination on a Mac/OSX  
appears to be command+click. I have no idea why the key combo that  
works on other platforms fails, and I never tried it before because  
usually, "command + anything" is only used for Mac-specific things.  
I'm used to using ctrl or option with X-11 apps, for example.

Anyhow, all fixed now.

Isaac