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= Main Help =
Welcome to the JOSM Help! 
The [wikitr:/Introduction Introduction] will guide you to your first successful edit. 
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] 
offer all actions possible in JOSM.
A [wikitr:/Help/Action/SearchMenuItems search for menu items] finds every action.
The **[wikitr:/Help/MainToolbar Main Toolbar]** has buttons for actions and presets.
The sidebar called **[wikitr:/Help/ToggleDialogs Toggle Dialogs]** has panels for selected elements.
The **[wikitr:/Help/StatusBar Status Bar]** informs about the drawing position.
The **[wikitr:/Help/EditToolbar Edit Toolbar]** is divided. The lower buttons are for the panels in the sidebar.
Most important are the buttons in the upper part. They choose the different ''Working modes''.

The main working area is the **[wikitr:/Help/MapView Map View]**. 
Here new [wikitr:Help/Concepts/Object objects] can be created if the ''Draw mode'' was set before. 
The ''Select mode'' is for moving existing objects and for choosing them into the [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/SelectionList#Selection Selection]. 
More modes exist.

Further 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] 
are explained in their help.
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Only the non-modal dialogs and the preferences are needed here
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== See also ==
The power of JOSM lays in its flexibility to allow every user to download, create, publish and share:
* [wikitr:/Presets Presets] to create map objects fast and easy
* [wikitr:/Rules Rules] to tag according to guidelines,
* [wikitr:/Styles Styles] to change the way the maps are painted,
* [wikitr:/Plugins Plugins] to extent JOSMs functionality and 
* [wikitr:/Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts] of his choice.

JOSM can handle all [osmwiki:Map_Features Map Features]. 
Growing next to the [osmwiki:Main_Page Openstreetmap] [osmwiki:JOSM since 2005] the growth rate was fast. 
Sometimes even faster than the speed of writing documentation, so you are invited to contribute here to keep the docs up to date and translated.

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