[[Image(...)]] Notes Dialog

Keyboard shortcut: none yet

This dialog presents a list of ​OSM notes and allows to create new, comment, close or reopen notes.

Regarding development state: The only main features missing, compared to the older ​notes plugin, is a way to open the note in a browser. List of open tickets.

To download notes: just set the advanced preference osm.notes.enableDownload to true and restart, then a checkbox appears in the download dialog. Since r8071 this step is no longer required, because the Notes support is enabled by default. Due to 10845 (fixed in JOSM version 7809), be sure to enable this Notes dialog before you download notes.

Showing and Hiding the Map Style Dialog Window

Show or hide this dialog window by

• using the Window menu (or, to hide, the dialog's buttons).
• clicking on in the tool palette on the left of the JOSM main window

Features

Icon	Name	Description
	Create a new note
	Add comment	Add a comment to an open note.
	Close note
	Reopen note
	Sort notes	You can sort the notes in the dialog by state (open, closed, new), username, created date or last change date.
	Upload note changes to server	After you created a note or made changes to existing notes, the changes are not uploaded automatically. You need to press this button. If you try to delete the Notes layer or close JOSM with not yet uploaded note changes, JOSM will ask, if you want to upload the changes.

Change advanced notes settings

There are some advanced settings for notes. To change them first download some notes and then go to the advanced preference and search for the following keys:

• osm.notes.daysClosed: you can specify how long (in days) the notes should still be downloaded after they were closed
  • set a number > 0 to set the days (e.g. 10 means a note which was closed 10 days ago will be downloaded, a note which was closed 11 days ago will not)
  • set it to 0, to download only open notes
  • set it to -1, to download all created notes ever (of course only in the selected area)
• osm.notes.downloadLimit: you can specify the maximal number of downloaded notes

See also

• You can also search for a Note via the File menu → Search Notes...
• ​A description, how-to enable/use (with many screenshots) and plans from the main developer (February 2015)

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