Edit Toolbar

The Edit toolbar consists of two parts to

• choose the active Working mode⤓ (upper buttons) and
• toggle each panel inside the ToggleDialogs with one of the buttons in the lower part.

The bar and its buttons can be hidden⤓.

Working modes

The Working mode determines what will happen when the mouse is clicked in the Map View. Therefore at all times exactly one Working mode is active in JOSM.

The different Working modes are activated with their Keyboard shortcuts. Additionally an activations is possible with the Edit toolbar buttons. But a Working mode can be active too even when his button is not shown.

The Working modes have separated mouse pointer icons and information texts Status bar.

Button	Name	Shortcut	Description
	Select mode	S	Select objects by rectangle to move, rotate and scale them
	Select mode (Lasso)	S toggles Select variants	Variant of the Select mode with a handdrawn area
	Draw mode	A	Draw nodes and ways. Press A again for Angle snapping
	Zoom mode		Zoom with a rectangle
	Delete mode	Ctrl+Delete	Delete nodes or ways
	Parallel mode	Shift+P	Creates parallel copy of ways
	Extrude mode	X	Create and edit way segments by extrusion
	Improve Way Accuracy mode	W	Improve geometry of ways
			Customize the buttons in this part of the Edit toolbar

Only three modes are initially shown. This can be changed by customizing the Edit toolbar and additionally by enabling Expert view.

There might be more buttons depending on the installed plugins:

Icon	Name	Shortcut	Description
	​Align Ways mode	Shift+N	Make ways parallel
	measurement mode		Measure distances
	​edit gpx tracks		Delete trackpoints of gpx tracks
	​Contour Merge		Merge and align the contours of areas. More infos at Contour Merge.
	​Adjust photos		Move photos to adjust their geolocation
	​FastDrawing	Shift+F	Tracing forests, rivers, lakes, twisted roads etc. Without clicking A button or left mouse click too much. More infos at Fast drawing.
	​Draw Buldings	B	Rectangular objects and/or basic shape of most man made objects. More infos at Draw building.

Context menu

The edit toolbar is usually visible at the left side of JOSMs interface but it can be hidden.

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

Text	Description
Hide this button	Buttons can be restored with the button at the bottom of its section in the edit toolbar.
Hide edit toolbar	Hides the edit toolbar. It can be restored via the View menu.
Do not hide toolbar	If checked, the keystroke TAB will not toggle the edit toolbar.

See also

• Menu Tools

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