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

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On 5 April 2011 01:06, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
> 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

Good stuff. I updated
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Upload_Waypoints to capture all my
newly acquired knowledge - hopefully this will help other newbies add
Points of Interest to OSM.

Thanks for the help!

Alex