[OSM-newbies] Editing a gps trace

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
>> Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In Potlatch, if you click on the "edit" link in that URL > you
>> pasted, you can select "convert GPS track
>> > to ways". (I haven't actually tried this though.)
>>
>> ...but if you then click "save" it says "nothing to save" - you
>> STILL have to click aaall the way through the track, re-tracing your
>> GPS trace, which does indeed look slightly redundant.
>
> Oh no you don't.
>
> When you have converted it to ways, you'll see that the ways are red
> and "locked". Select one and you'll see a really big red icon saying
> "Click to unlock". You need to do what it says, and click to unlock
> it, before it'll upload.
>
> This is all documented in the help page. I recommend reading it. :)

Indeed. Is this a relatively new feature? I noticed this during my
last upload and it's a life-saver!

Thanks for the correction,

-A