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= Main Help =
Welcome to the JOSM Help system! 
An easy start is the [wikitr:/Introduction Introduction]. 
The [wikitr:/HowTo How Tos] deal with some use cases. 

== Interface ==
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The **[wikitr:/Help/Menu Main Menu]** and its submenus 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/File File], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Edit Edit], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/View View], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Tools Tools], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Selection Selection], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Presets Presets], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Imagery Imagery], 
[wikitr:/Help/ToggleDialogs Windows], 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Audio Audio] and 
[wikitr:/Help/Menu/Help Help] 
lead the way to all actions possible in JOSM.
A [wikitr:/Help/Action/SearchMenuItems search] allows to find every menu item and every action.
Both the **[wikitr:/Help/MainToolbar Main Toolbar]** under the menu and the **[wikitr:/Help/EditToolbar Edit Toolbar]** on the left side allow instant access to actions and data.

The **Main Area** is called [wikitr:/Help/MapView Map View].
It is for editing the map [wiki:Help/Concepts/Object objects].
It has a close relation to the panels in the **[wikitr:/Help/ToggleDialogs Toggle Dialogs]** on the right side.
The panels allow to view and to edit the tags of the selected objects.

The **[wikitr:/Help/StatusBar Status Bar]** informs about the drawing position, the highlighted object and the working mode.
Not shown here are the dialogs 
for setting [wikitr:/Help/Action/Preferences Preferences],
for managing [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/ChangesetManager Changesets],
for resolving [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/Conflict Conflicts] and 
the [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/RelationEditor Relation Editor]. 
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Only the non-modal dialogs and the preferences are needed here
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== Concepts ==
The power of JOSM lays in its flexibility to allow every user to download, create, publish and share:
* [wikitr:/Presets Presets] to tag fast and [wikitr:/Rules validated],
* [wikitr:/Styles Styles] to change the way the maps are painted,
* [wikitr:/Plugins Plugin] to extent JOSMs functionality far beyond the programs core and 
* [wikitr:/Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts] of his choice.

== Past and Future ==
JOSM grows since 2005 togther with the [osmwiki:Main_Page Openstreetmap] to handle all [osmwiki:Map_Features Map Features]. 
There are some older pages about [osmwiki:JOSM JOSM] [osmwiki:JOSM/Guide their wiki].

The speed of growth was sometimes bigger than the speed of writing documentation, so you are invited to contribute to this help here on JOSM to keep it up to date and translated.

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Open remains from the former format:
* [wiki:Help/AudioMapping Audio mapping:] playing voice notes and synchronizing them with your GPS tracks in JOSM

== JOSM error messages ==
* [wiki:Help/ErrorMessages Error messages]
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