Status Bar

The status bar (bottom panel) displays the following information (from left to right):

Box	Displays	Notes
	The geographic latitude of the mousepointer	A left click opens the Jump to Position Dialog. With a right click you can change the coordinates format (Decimal Degrees, deg° min' sec", deg° min' (Nautical), Projected Coordinates).
	The geographic longitude of the mousepointer	Same as above.
	The (compass) heading of the line segment being drawn.
	The angle between the previous and the current way segment. The background color of this box changes to green if Angle snapping is active.	See also context menu below.
	In edit mode: the length of new way segment being drawn; in select mode: the length of selected way(s) or the distance of two selected nodes	A left click changes the system of measurement (Metric → Chinese → Imperial → Nautical Mile). With a right click you can directly choose one measurement system.
	The name, number of nodes and ID of the object at the mouse pointer.	With a right click you can choose if the statusbar gets hidden when hiding the dialogs panel with Tab.
(an empty space) or text	Some helpful information about the current working mode	With a right click you can copy the shown help text.

Angle snapping settings menu

Available via right click menu at "angle" when Draw mode is enabled:

Advanced Preferences

With the following keys in the Advanced Preferences you can adjust the numbers in the statusbar:

• latlon.dms.decimal-format: adjusts the number of decimal places of the coordinates in deg° min' sec" format
• latlon.dm.decimal-format: adjusts the number of decimal places of coordinates in deg° min' (Nautical) format
• statusbar.decimal-format: adjusts the number of decimal places of heading, angle and distance/length
• statusbar.distance-threshold: determines when to display -- instead of the distance

After changing such a key you need to restart JOSM.

---

Back to Main Help