Notes Dialog

Keyboard shortcut: none yet

This dialog presents a list of ​OSM notes and allows to create new, comment, close or reopen notes. These notes can also be edited on the main page ​osm.org (right toolbar).

Showing and hiding the Notes Dialog Window

Show or hide this dialog window by

• using the Window menu (or, to hide, the dialog's buttons).
• clicking on in the tool palette on the left of the JOSM main window

Downloading notes

There are different possibilities:

• Use the "Notes" checkbox in the download dialog.
  • Older versions: Before r8071 (Notes support got enabled by default): just set the advanced preference osm.notes.enableDownload to true and restart. Before r7809 (due to 10845): be sure to enable this Notes dialog before you download notes.
• Search for a Note via the File menu → Search Notes...
• Use File menu → Open Location... and enter a special URL.
• Use File menu → Download notes in current view
• Use the "Download notes in current view" button of this Dialog
• Downloading via remote control on osm.org is not yet working (see #9907 and ​github issue)

Features

Icon	Name	Description
	Download notes in current view
	Create a new note
	Add comment	Add a comment to an open note.
	Close note
	Reopen note
	Sort notes	You can sort the notes in the dialog by state (open, closed, new), username, created date or last change date.
	Upload note changes to server	After you created a note or made changes to existing notes, the changes are not uploaded automatically. You need to press this button. If you try to delete the Notes layer or close JOSM with not yet uploaded note changes, JOSM will ask, if you want to upload the changes.
	(left click)	A left click on a notes symbol in the map view or on a list entry in the Notes Dialog Window opens the note's content in a tooltip in the map area
	(right click)	right clicking a note's tooltip copies this note's API URL into your clipboard
	Ctrl+C	Select a note in the Notes Dialog and press Ctrl+C to copy the ID of the note and the text of the first comment to the clipboard.

Regarding development state: The only main features missing, compared to the older ​notes plugin, is a way to open the note in a browser. List of open tickets.

Advanced Preferences

There are some advanced settings for notes. To change them first download some notes and then go to the advanced preference and search for the following keys:

• osm.notes.daysClosed: you can specify how long (in days) the notes should still be downloaded after they were closed. The default value is 7 (You can set this value also under Connection Preferences.)
  • set a number > 0 to set the days (e.g. 10 means a note which was closed 10 days ago will be downloaded, a note which was closed 11 days ago will not)
  • set it to 0, to download only open notes
  • set it to -1, to download all created notes ever (of course only in the selected area and limited to the maximum download limit, see below)
• osm.notes.downloadLimit: you can specify the maximum number of downloaded notes. The default value is 1000. The maximum value is 10000. There is a warning displayed if you reach the limit.

See also

• ​A description, how-to enable/use (with many screenshots) and plans from the main developer (February 2015)

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