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

[SomeoneElse]

On 04/04/2011 22:22, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> 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?
>

Nearly - in P2 if you alt-click on the orange marker for your waypoint 
you turn it into a new node without having to mess around with "drag and 
drop".

Cheers,
Andy