Edit > Paste

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+V

Paste the contents of the clipboard,
at the mouse pointer position into the active data layer:

• all nodes and parent objects will be preserved as they were selected (relative position is kept)
• links in the data (node-way, way-relation and node-relation) will be respected only if they were selected; cloned objects will have (new) links similar to copied objects

Pasting URLs

When you have an open osm data layer and you paste an URL the objects or file from the URL will be downloaded, by default to the current active data layer. This is a shortcut for Open Location and the previously used optional settings are respected.

See also

• Paste at source position - if you want to paste an object at its source position (e.g. from another layer or another JOSM instance)
• Copy - used to copy objects
• Paste Tags - will paste only tags
• Duplicate

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