The Edit Toolbar

The edit toolbar is placed at the left side of the JOSM Window and is splitted into two parts.

• The upper part allows to choose different working modes. There is always exactly one mode active.
• The lower part allows to enable/disable the windows on the right side. More information about these windows see ToggleDialogs.

Working modes

Click on a button or use the shortcut to activate its working mode.

There might be more buttons depending on the loaded plugins and activated items.

Icon	JOSM core or plugin	Expert required?	Name of the mode	Activation steps	What actions can be performed
	JOSM core	no	Select	S to toggle from lasso tool	Move, rotate, scale and select objects
	JOSM core	no	Lasso	S to toggle from "Select mode"	select objects within a handdraw region
	JOSM core	no	Draw	A	Draw nodes and ways
	JOSM core	no	Angle snapping function	A A	Draw nodes and segments at precise angles
	JOSM core	yes	Zoom		Zoom with a rectangle
	JOSM core	yes	Delete	Ctrl+Delete	Delete nodes or ways or individual segments in a way
	JOSM core	yes	Parallel	Shift+P	Make parallel copy of ways
	JOSM core	yes	Extrude	X	Create areas by extrusion
	JOSM core	no	Improve Way Accuraccy	W	Optimized tool to improve geometry of ways
	JOSM core	no	Customize toolbar		Show/hide icons in the edit toolbar
	FastDraw plugin		Fast drawing	Shift+F	Tracing forests, rivers, lakes, twisted roads etc. Without clicking A button or left mouse click too much.
	buildings_tools plugin		Draw building	B	Rectangular objects and/or basic shape of most man made objects.
	contourmerge plugin		Contourmerge	none	Merge and align the contours of areas

Windows

see ToggleDialogs

Context menu

When you right click on an button in the edit toolbar, you get the following options:

Text	Description
Hide this button	Hides this button. It can be restored at the button.
Hide edit toolbar	Hides the edit toolbar. It can be restored via the View menu.
Do not hide toolbar	If checked, the edit toolbar will not disappear when pessing TAB.

See also

• Menu Edit
• Menu Tools
• Toggle Dialogs
• Help/JOSM interface customization

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