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List below contains mosty/only unreplaceable tools with preference to core JOSM tools. 

They are grouped per function rather than per plug-in or Main menu.
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[wiki:Help/Action/SearchMenuItems Search among all JOSM tools and menu items] - {{{Ctrl+Spacebar}}}

=== Basic shape of objects ===
* [Help/Action/Select Select, move and rotate] tools - you only need subset of tools from this list
* [Help/Action/DrawBuilding Draw a rectangular stub] - optionally aligned along by other objects
* [Help/Action/FastDrawingMode FastDraw] - useful with natural objects;
* [Help/Action/Extrude Extrude], [Help/Action/Draw/AngleSnap Angle snapping], [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/CommandLine#Usage Spline or Bezier ''from commandline plugin''] - mostly for man made objects
* both [Help/Action/Draw Draw nodes mode] and [Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy Improve Way Accuracy mode] - have their followers and use cases
* [Help/Action/Paste Paste previously copied objects] - not only tags but also their geometries

=== Selection ===
Selection (or list of currently selected objects) is precisely described in Help/Dialog/SelectionList#Selection (because it is visible from this dialogue), it can be modified with following tools (incomplete list):
* [Help/Action/Select#Selecttool Select objects] - contains many modifiers, including [Help/Action/LassoMode lasso mode]
* [Help/Action/Search Search] - a very powerful tool and a query language with [Help/Action/Search#Keywords over 28 keywords] and flexible operators to combine them in flexible manner. Not to mention regex and [wiki:Help/Styles/MapCSSImplementation mapcss] filters.
* (Shift+F3) - search objects by preset
* [wiki:Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2#Selection] - multiple selection focused tools ''from UtilsPlugin2''
* [Help/Action/SelectNonBranchingWaySequences Select non branching way sequences] - useful when editing highways, railways, rivers, power networks and networks in general
* [Help/Action/SelectAll Select all] is more useful after you download precise list of objects

=== Tags === 
Tags of currently selected objects displayed in [Help/Dialog/TagsMembership Tags/Memberships Dialog].
* [Help/Action/Copy Copy] - copy selected objects to the buffer
* [Help/Action/PasteTags PasteTags] - paste previously copied tags 
* Tabular editor (Ctrl+T) (from [wiki:Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2 UtilsPlugin2])
* (Shift+R) (from [wiki:Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2 UtilsPlugin2]) copy tags from previous selection
* Standard [Help/Dialog/AddValue Add value] (Alt+A) dialogue provides 5 shortcuts to 5 last used tags without closing this dialogue

=== Topology tools and changes ===
* [Help/Action/MergeNodes Merge] two or more points
* [Help/Action/UnGlue UnGlue] explode single point into multiple
* [Help/Action/MoveNodeWay Join point into a way segment]
* [wiki:Help/Action/DisconnectNodeWay DisconnectNodeWay] - opposite of above, disconnect a node from a way segment
* [wiki:Help/Action/AddIntersections AddIntersections] (Shift+I) (from [wiki:Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2 UtilsPlugin2]) - will create nodes at places where current selections intersects (or self intersects)
* [wiki:Help/Action/SplitObject Split geometry by selected line] (Alt+X) (from [wiki:Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2 UtilsPlugin2])
* [Help/Action/SplitWay Split way] - split way by a node
* [Help/Action/CombineWay Combine Way] - combine several selected ways in one
* [Help/Action/JoinAreas Join overlapping areas]
* [Help/Plugin/ContourMerge ContourMerge] mode can used to glue complex parts that would require too many ''Merges'' otherwise; it could also used to partially or completely replace geometry of one object with partial or a complete geometry of other object

=== Geometry tools ===
==== Precision in angles ====
* [Help/Action/Draw#Anglesnapping Anglesnapping] will ease drawing way segments in 30°, 45°, 60° and 90° degrees
* [Help/Action/Extrude#Basicusage Extrude] tool will ease drawing of strictly perpendicular segments

==== Alignment ====
* [Help/Action/AlignInLine Align in line] will align selected nodes into a line
* [Help/Action/DistributeNodes Distribute] as above, but also place them at equal distances
* "Copy" objects at precise anchor points ''from [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/CommandLine commandline]''
* "Move" objects at custom vector ''from [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/CommandLine commandline]''
* [Help/Action/AlignInCircle Align selected nodes in circle]

===== Parallel =====
* [Help/Action/Parallel Parallel], draw lines and curves parallel to each other, draw nested infrastructure quickly
* [Help/Action/Extrude#MovesegmentinparallelCtrl Extude mode used on segments] - will move them in parallel, preserving angles when it is needed


==== Rotation ====
* [Help/Action/Select#Rotateobjects Rotate objects] at user-defined angle (but exact angle is unknown)
* {{{ShapeTools}}} [wiki:Plugins plugin]:
 * Rotate object at predefined angle
 * Rotate objects (match building with road)
 * Rotate objects (match building with road, don't rotate more than epsilon)

=== Viewport control ===
* Explained at [Help/MapView MapView], [Help/Menu/View "View" menu] and [Help/Action/Zoom Zoom tool]
* [Help/Dialog/Minimap Minimap] window
* [Help/Action/JumpToPosition JumpToPosition]