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

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