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Status Bar
The status bar displays the following information:
Box | Displays | Action / Menus |
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| The geographic latitude of the mousepointer | A left click opens the Jump to Position Dialog. With a right click you can change the coordinates format (Decimal Degrees , deg° min' sec" , deg° min' (Nautical), Projected Coordinates).
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| The geographic longitude of the mousepointer | Same as above. |
| The (compass) heading of the line segment being drawn. | |
| The angle between the previous and the current way segment. Green background color if Angle Snapping is active. | A right click opens the angle snapping settings menu, see below. |
| In edit mode: the length of new way segment being drawn; in select mode: the length of selected way(s) or the distance of two selected nodes | A left click changes the system of measurement (Metric → Chinese → Imperial → Nautical Mile). With a right click you can directly choose one measurement system. |
| The name, number of nodes and ID of the object at the mouse pointer. | |
text | Some helpful information about the current working mode | With a right click you can copy the shown help text. |
Additional, except "text", the context menu always includes a check box to choose if the statusbar gets hidden when hiding the dialogs panel with Tab
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Angle snapping settings menu
Available via right click menu at "angle" when
Draw mode is enabled:
Advanced Preferences
With the following keys in the Advanced Preferences you can adjust the numbers in the statusbar:
latlon.dms.decimal-format
: adjusts the number of decimal places of the coordinates in deg° min' sec" formatlatlon.dm.decimal-format
: adjusts the number of decimal places of coordinates in deg° min' (Nautical) formatstatusbar.decimal-format
: adjusts the number of decimal places of heading, angle and distance/lengthstatusbar.distance-threshold
: determines when to display--
instead of the distance
After changing such a key you need to restart JOSM.
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