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

[Richard Welty]

On 4/4/11 10:08 AM, Roger Calvert wrote:
>
>     Is there documentation anywhere on how to do that from a Garmin
>     device? I can get the POIs onto MapSource, but don't know how to
>     transfer them to OSM. Manually adding them to the map with
>     Potlatch is inaccurate, error prone and extremely time consuming.
>
> Not too hard - from MapSource, save them as type .GPX. Then load into 
> OSM via the normal Upload a Trace method, then edit if needed.
couple of ways to do this. here are some draft instructions i wrote up for
another project:

http://www.averillpark.net/OSM/nuvi-instructions.pdf

richard

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