Changeset Manager

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Launching Changeset Manager

There are several ways to launch the Changeset Manager:

1. Select the menu item View->Changeset Manager
2. Press Ctrl-Alt-C
3. Select one or more changesets in the Changeset List Dialog and click there on

The Changeset Manager window

Querying changesets

There are several ways to query and download changesets. The most common query and download operations can be invoked directly from the Changset Manager. Other more advanced features are provided by the Changeset Query Dialog.

Query and download a changeset by its unique ID

If you want to download a specific changeset whose ID you know, you can download it directly in the Changeset Manager.

1. Enter the changeset ID in the input field in the toolbar section of the Changeset Manager
2. Press ENTER or click on

If you download a single changeset JOSM downloads both the changeset properties (for instance its id or the date it was created) and the changeset content (i.e. the list of objects created, updated, or deleted with this changeset).

Query and download your open changesets

Changesets can be open or closed. A mapper can always upload additional objects to an open changeset he or she owns.

If you want to download the list of open changesets you own

1. Click on My open changesets in the toolbar section of the Changeset Manager

Note that this download only the changeset properties without the changeset content. For downloading the content of changesets see below.

Advanced queries

Advanced queries like

• querying the changesets owned by another mapper
• querying the most recent changesets open or closed on the OSM server
• querying changesets which modified object in a specific area (called a "bounding box")

can be run using the Changeset Query Dialog.

To launch the Changeset Query Dialog:

1. Click on Query in the toolbar section of the Changeset Manager

Managing the cache of downloaded changesets

Removing changesets from the cache

Updating the properties of changesets in the cache

Downloading/Updating the content of changesets in the cache

Selecting the objects in changesets in the Map View

Zooming to changesets

Managing a single changeset

Browsing properties, tags, and content

Remove a changeset from the local cache

Updating/Downloading changeset content

Selecting objects in the changeset content in the Map View

Zooming to objects in the changeset content

Download and display the history of objects in the changeset content

See also