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Selection mode, Move and Rotate Objects
Keyboard shortcut: S
; press S
to toggle between this tool and lasso tool
This tool has four possible modes:
Table of Contents
Selection mode
Hotkeys
Click | Selects one object. Click in an empty area and drag selects more objects. |
Click | Clicking and dragging a red cross in the middle of a segment will insert a new node at the location of the cross. |
Click-MiddleMouse | Cycle through the different objects under the mouse cursor (for duplicated nodes or ways sharing the same nodes). Holding "Ctrl" afterwards to directly select an object. |
Shift-Click | Holding the "Shift" key when in select mode adds new element to existing selection. |
Ctrl-Click | Holding the "Ctrl" key toggles element selection. |
Ctrl-Area | Using area selection with "Ctrl" removes elements in area from selection. |
Alt-Click | Cycle through the different objects under the mouse cursor (without popup). |
This MapMode enables the user to make selections of different objects. The selected objects are drawn in a different style, depending on display preferences and the active styles. The cursor icon will also change depending on the selection mode.
Selecting single objects
Single left mouse click to select an object
Left mouse click
to select the node or way nearest to the pointer. The node or way that would be selected is highlighted as a hint.
Selecting particular ways
This is useful when:
- certain way which shares common nodes with one or more other ways
- multiple objects overlap
- multiple objects very close to each other
To activate menu, you can use one of two options:
- Middle-click
- Left-click while holding the
Alt
(orAltGr
) key to cycle through nearby objects without showing a pop-up window.
It will show a pop-up window of nearby objects and to cycle through them. To make this type of selection the default, and thus not require the use of the Alt
key, change the advanced preference selectaction.cycles.multiple.matches
to true.
Double mouse click to select object around cursor
Double left mouse click
to select the surrounding object (closed way or multipolygon).
Selecting multiple objects using selection rectangle
Hold and drag the left mouse button to draw a selection rectangle .
- Release the left mouse button to select all objects within the rectangle. All nodes within the rectangle and any ways which are entirely within the rectangle will be selected.
- To cancel the selection rectangle, hold the right mouse button when releasing the left mouse button.
Modifiers
When the mouse button is released and either Alt
, Shift
or Ctrl
is held, following selection is made:
Alt
: in addition to the normal behavior, select all ways that have at least one node within selection rectangle.Shift
: the objects are added to the current selection.Ctrl
: remove all objects under the current rectangle from the active selection (if there were any). Nothing is added to the current selection.
Alt
can be combined with Shift
, but cannot be combined with Ctrl
, as this is used for the scale command.
Unselecting
To unselect everything you can either click on an empty area of the screen, or press Esc
on the keyboard.
If you have more than one object selected, and just want to unselect one particular object, then click it with the 'Select tool' while holding down Ctrl
.
Move
You can move selected nodes and ways in the main window, by moving the mouse cursor close to one of the selected objects and then left clicking while dragging the mouse.
- If the mouse cursor is near a node when performing the move action, then just this node is moved.
- If you move a node very close to another node and hold
Ctrl
when releasing the left mouse button the moved node will be merged with the other node.
- If you move a node very close to another node and hold
- If the mouse cursor is near a way when performing the move action, then this way, together with its associated nodes, is moved.
Moving objects is also possible with shift + arrow keys
.
Merge nodes
You can merge selected nodes with another one by holding down Ctrl
and dragging one selected node onto the unselected one.
Rotate
You can rotate selected nodes and ways by holding down Shift+Ctrl
+ left mouse button and moving the cursor.
Scale
You can scale selected nodes and ways by holding down Ctrl+Alt
+ left mouse button and moving the cursor.
Cursors
The cursor changes to indicate what action will occur:
Cursor | Action |
---|---|
a node will be selected | |
a node will be added to the current selection | |
a node will be removed from the current selection | |
a way will be selected | |
a way will be added to the current selection | |
a way will be removed from the current selection | |
objects within the rectangle will be selected | |
objects within the rectangle will added to the current selection | |
objects within the rectangle will removed from the current selection | |
the selected nodes will be merged with the node near the pointer | |
rotate the selected objects | |
scale the selected objects |
Advanced details
Whether a mouse action is considered a selection or a move depends on some settings, to prevent objects from being moved when a simple selection was intended; this is particularly important on devices such as tablets that are touch sensitive or use a stylus. If the pointer is moved between pressing and releasing the left mouse button, the object will only be moved if the pointer moved more than 5 pixels or was held down for more than 0.2 seconds, otherwise the object will simply be selected. These two settings can be changed with the advanced preferences edit.initial-move-threshold
(pixels) and edit.initial-move-delay
(milliseconds).
See also
- Help - main help page contains section about popular selection tools
- Unselect all
Escape
- Improve Way Accuracy - over time many mappers switch to this tools instead of manually moving each node
- UtilsPlugin2 contains additional selection functionality
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