On Friday, 8 February 2008 10:40:20 +0100, Gerco-Kees Bloemsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Feb 8, 2008 10:25 AM, David Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I recall correctly, if you turn on the selection > > window using the appropriate button on the left, you > > can see the ID of what you've got selected. > > Yes, but that does not work with objects with names (because than the names > are shown in the selection-dialog) and neither with relations (the > selection-window only shows selected nodes or ways....)
In the advanced preferences in JOSM (Edit-> Preferences -> Advanced Preferences), add the following key and value: osm-primitives.showid=true After this is done (and JOSM is restarted) the id is shown in addition to a probably existing name or ref(erence). Best wishes, -bernd _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies

