File > Open…

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-O

Open a file in a new layer.

The following dialog is displayed:

JOSM can either open OSM data files, GPX files, NMEA files, OSN files (Notes), WMS files, session files or JPG files.

If you type the name of the file to open and omit the file extension, JOSM tries to guess it and opens the correct file.

NMEA, .osm and .gpx files can be compressed files with gzip or bzip2 compression.

File formats supported by core

Name	Extension	Help resource or links
Session file	*.jos, *.joz	File > Save Session As …

Plugins

There many Plugins ​plugins that can extend ​core importers

(TODO: cover them using table here)

See also

• Open Recent
• Open Location

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