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

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On 4 April 2011 15:30, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 14:51, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, this is going in the right direction.
>> Using this trick I uploaded a sample GPX with a single waypoint (a
>> post box in London):
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AlexandrosPapadopoulos/traces/981138
>>
>> I then follow the "edit" link from the "Your GPS traces page":
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?gpx=981138
>>
>> This brings up P2, but I can't find my waypoint. Following the "GPS
>> data" ->  "My tracks" pulldown menu and selecting "Load" for this gpx
>> again doesn't seem to do much.
>>
>> Stuck at this point.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alex
>
> Odd.  The track start location seems to be near Sheffield (like my example
> was) rather than a postbox in London.  I've just tried doing the same for a
> waypoint of mine:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/trace/981163/view
>
> and that correctly appears as a waypoint at a specified location.  You
> should be able to download that GPX to see the contents of the file.

Duplicating the latitude/longitude of the waypoint in the track
section seems to have done the trick:

P2 opened, with a clearly visible circle where my waypoint was. I then
dragged and dropped a "postbox" icon onto it, from the left hand side
pane, edited the metadata and saved. In doing that, I treated the
original waypoint simply as a marker to manually stick a POI from the
P2 selection on.

The end result is the post box icon here: http://osm.org/go/euuy6cNHW--

Is this how this is supposed to work?

Cheers

Alex