[OSM-newbies] placing a POI at a precise location

[Jeff Spirko]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:21 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> If you know the latitude and longitude at which a particular POI should
> be located, is there a Linux tool (whether GUI or command-line) that
> lets you add a POI at that precise location?  You can enter coordinates
> into Potlatch, but then all that it does is show you the tile containing
> that location.  It doesn't mark where on the tile that location is, and
> dragging a POI location onto the map, or double-clicking, still leaves
> the possibility that you won't be at quite the intended location.

You could save the POI to GPX (gpsvisualizer.com will do it from text
if you choose from "Force text data to be of this type"), upload it
into OSM, then edit the "Track".  Potlatch will then let you "unlock"
the POI, putting it in the database.

Heed the warning already posted about copyrights.  Though I disagree
about measurements from a graphical map being derivative works,
lawyers and courts may not.

> Also, is there any way to pan, as opposed to zooming in or out, while in
> edit mode in Potlatch?  Being able to scroll the location, without
> having to change from edit mode to view mode and back again, would be a
> time-saver.

You can drag the map around in potlatch.  This is true even when you
are drawing a way.

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