Properties/Membership Dialog

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+P

The properties window is shown to the right of the main JOSM window. If it is not displayed then click the property for selected objects icon (an image of a diagonally label) in the left panel or the [Menu/Window Menu Window], or use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+P.

This dialog box shows you the existing properties for the selected objects, and allows you to add, edit, or delete properties.

Properties are generally added to objects, and whatever objects you want to edit must be first selected before using any of the controls outlined below. The keys and values in use in OpenStreetMap can be found on the ​map features page and elsewhere in the ​OSM wiki.
Note: You can also add tags to selected object using presets from the Presets Menu.

You can either select one object at a time, or select multiple objects, before using the control buttons below. If you have selected multiple objects and they have different values for a particular key, then in the properties dialog box this will be shown as value <different>.

In the header the total number of properties and memberships of selected objects is given, below all tags (Key/Value) are listed and at the bottom of the list the relations of which selected objects are members of with their roles and their position within the relation are displayed.

Buttons

Add

Add (Alt+A) - add key/value pairs to selected objects.

Double clicking in the empty space below the properties or clicking the Add button opens the add value dialog which allows you to enter keys and values.
Autocompletion and a drop down list for keys and its corresponding values will contain more or less entries depending on the key/value pairs within the open data layers and the additional loaded presets.

Edit

Edit (Alt+S) - Change selected key/value pair.

If you either double click on a key/value pair in the property dialog or select one pair and then click the Edit button you can edit the value and/or key in the "change value dialog".

Delete

Delete (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D) - Delete selected key/value pairs.

If you select one or several key/value pair in the property dialog, and then click the Delete button they will be immediately deleted. If you make a mistake then you can use undo (Ctrl+Z) on the Edit Menu or the command stack toogle dialog to undo it.

Context Menu

Right click on a entry opens the [Menu/PropertiesMenu Properties Context Menu]

Advanced Preferences

Property	Default	Explanation
properties.presets.top	true	If set to true, displays the list of presets matching the current properties.
properties.recently-added-tags	5	The number (up to 9) of recently added tags displayed in the Add dialog box. If set to 0, disables this feature.
url.openstreetmap-wiki	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/	The address of the OSM wiki used to see the documentation of a tag.

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