Selection window

keyboard shortcut: Shift+Alt+T — one of the JOSM windows

This list shows the currently selected objects (nodes, ways, closed ways and relations).

Selection

• Selection is independent per each layer
  • Selection in other layers will be preserved after an unsuccessful search - it is safe to change (or even erase) selection in one layer and expect to selection in other layer to kept
  • Selection in the active layer will be empty after unsuccessful search
• There at least 2 tools to recover history of last selected objects:
  • Small triangle in "Select" button from this page
  • Special syntax in the search action - selection based on list of objects save in the file
• Selection is ordered (internally, but you cannot control order except by re-selecting objects); practical use of it can be seen in MergeNodes
• This window has not 3, but 5 control elements in total. Triangles are often overlooked at first, but provide a very powerful tools
• List of currently selected object(s) can be erased:
  • after Left mouse click on empty space in viewport (main editing window)
  • after using one of many Deselection tools
  • after running search query (explained above)
  • after Escape tool
• Items in Selection window can be subselected

Subselection

Items in selection can be "selected" again (subselected)

• Mouse click to subselect single object
• Hold Ctrl
  • to subselect more than object
  • to remove subselection from objects

Single node Spielemax subselected in screen below

Context menu

• "Zoom to selection" - zoom to all items in selection
• "Zoom to selected elements" - zoom to subselection

Items below apply only to relations

• "Edit" - open Relation editor
• "Delete"
• "Select in relation list" - open Relation list
• "Select relation"
• "Select relation (add)"
• "Select members"
• "Select members (add)"
• "Download members"
• "Download incomplete members"

Naming

• Nodes are shown with their names (likewise their OSM-ID) and their position in brackets.
• Ways and closed ways are shown with their names and if no name-tags exist with their main tag (e.g. highway, landuse, railway ...). If JOSM is not able to interpreted any tag the OSM-IDs are shown. The numbers of nodes the ways consist of are always shown in brackets.
• Relations are shown with their type and in brackets the name and the number of members.

Control buttons

Select

Select selects the objects currently selected in the selection list.

Small triangle in Select button

With the small triangle button within the Select button you can restore previous selections from a drop down list:

Objects that were filtered out (by filters) will be displayed as "Unselectable now".

Search

Search feature: it allows a very sophisticated search.

Small triangle in Search button

Like Select the small triangle button within the Search button also offers a drop down search list of previous search.

History

History opens the History Browser. For each selected object(s) a separate window will open.

Advanced Preferences

There are some advanced settings which can be changed in the advanced preference:

• osm-primitives.showid: set to true/false to display/hide the osm id of the object in the list
• osm-primitives.showcoor: set to true/false to display/hide the coordinates of the object in the list

See also

• Search.

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