Expert mode

In Expert mode all screen elements are visible. By default the amount of elements visible for new users is reduced. This should protect newbies from doing unwanted things. Most actions are still accessible by their Shortcut keys even when Expert mode is disabled.

Enabling Expert mode

It can be switched like this:

View menu > Expert Mode
or
Edit menu > Preferences… > Checkbox Expert mode at the bottom left.

Features hidden

The following features are only visible when the Expert mode is enabled. This list is probably incomplete.

Actions

• Convert to GPX layer
• Add selection to relation
• resolve all selected conflicts to my/their versions in context menu of Conflict List Dialog
• Encourage/Discourage Upload in Data layer context menu
• Customize track drawing in GPX Layer context menu - various options
• "Sort the currently selected members and all members below" in the Relation Editor
• In MapView's imagery context menu > Get tile status
• In MapView's imagery context menu > Force tile rendering

Menus

File

• Export to GPX ...
• Download in current view
• Close open changesets

Edit

• Copy Coordinates
• Copy server URLs
• Paste at source position
• Purge

View

• Draw boundaries of downloaded data
• Viewport Following
• Jump To Position

Mode

see Working Modes below

Tools

• Mirror
• Follow Line
• Add Node...
• Move Node...

Selection

• Invert Selection

Windows

• Changeset Manager
• Changeset List

Working Modes

• Select mode (Lasso)
• Delete mode
• Parallel way mode
• Extrude mode
• Zoom mode

Windows Tool Bar

see Menu Windows above

Windows

• Search > some functions and examples
• Download > "Download from Overpass API" tab
• Download > "Download from Sophox API" tab
• Download > "Zoom to downloaded data" check box
• Open Location > "Zoom to downloaded data" check box
• The reuse history window when using the Split way Action

Preferences

• Display Settings > GPS Points - various options
• Display Settings > OSM Data - Options that affect drawing performance
• Display Settings > Look and Feel - some options
• Map Settings > Map Projection - "Set as default" button
• OSM Server > Overpass Server settings
• Plugins > Load from list...
• Plugins > Configure sites...
• Advanced Preferences

Note

• The expert mode is not a working mode.

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