Glossary

To keep JOSMs interface easy and consistent its vocabulary needs to be easy and consistent too. Also the Translations benefit from a plain terms.

Source	Translation	Hints
advanced preferences		Settings which are only visible to advanced users, see help page
angle snapping		Function to draw segments that are parallel, perpendicular or at precisely defined angles (30°, 45°, 60°, 90°) to the base segment.
button		Sub forms are panel buttons, switch buttons and else
child		When the OSM objects has higher level objects (like nodes in ways or ways in a relation) it is a child
edit toolbar		Toolbar to switch working mode and toggle panels of the sidebar
element		Not used in JOSM, see object and member
(GPX) track		Recorded raw position data used for creating new objects
imagery		Background images for tracing
item		Mostly a menu item.
keyboard shortcut		Also shortcut key
key		The key part of a tag
main toolbar		Also called as toolbar or symbol bar
map paint style		drawing rules for JOSM map, see Styles
mapview		The main map area of the screen
member		Reference in a relation to another object
membership		Objects referenced from a relation
node		The basic coordinate object of OSM (sometimes called point)
note		Notes are placed by other OSM users
object		One of the OSM elements node, way or relation (sometimes called (data) primitive)
OSM data		Objects from the OSM server
outside of the world		beyond the boundaries of the downloaded map data
parent		If a OSM objects has higher level objects (like nodes in ways or ways in a relation) these are parents
plugin		Extension for JOSM
preset		A collection of object types (also called tagging preset)
primitive		One of the OSM elements node, way or relation (sometimes called data object)
referrer		Objects which are referred to, like nodes of a way or child relations.
relation		The basic grouping object of OSM
selection		Objects on the working layer are selected
sidebar		Contains several panels (also called ToggleDialog)
status bar		Below the Mapview
tag		A key and value pair for an object, elsewhere called attribute
tagging		Adding tags to objects to describe them
tagging preset		see preset
tags		The whole set of tags for an object
trace		Creating new objects (typically from imagery)
validator		Quality ensure tool of JOSM to check (new) data.
value		The value part of a tag
way		The straight variant of a way without curves is a line
working mode		Editing mode